House Study Bill 581 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON STANERSON) A BILL FOR An Act concerning the display of the POW/MIA flag on public 1 buildings. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5978YC (2) 86 ec/sc
H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 1B.3, Code 2016, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 1B.3 Flags on public buildings. 3 It shall be the duty of any board of public officers charged 4 with providing supplies for a public building in the state 5 to provide a suitable state flag and it shall be the duty 6 of the custodian of that public building to raise the flags 7 of the United States of America and the state of Iowa, upon 8 each secular day when weather conditions are favorable. If 9 the custodian of a public building raises the national league 10 of POW/MIA families’ flag on a flag pole, the prisoner of 11 war/missing in action flag shall be flown directly underneath 12 the flag of the United States of America and above the flag of 13 the state of Iowa. 14 EXPLANATION 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 16 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 17 This bill provides that if the POW/MIA flag is flown on a 18 flag pole of a public building, it shall be flown directly 19 underneath the flag of the United States of America and above 20 the flag of the state of Iowa. 21 -1- LSB 5978YC (2) 86 ec/sc 1/ 1