House Study Bill 701 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON SALMON) 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 6361YC (1) 88 ec/rn
H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 1B.3, Code 2020, 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 of 6 the custodian of that public building to raise the flags of 7 the United States of America , and the state of Iowa, and the 8 national league of POW/MIA families’ flag, upon each secular 9 day when weather conditions are favorable. The national league 10 of POW/MIA families’ flag shall be flown underneath the flag of 11 the United States of America and the flag of the state of Iowa. 12 EXPLANATION 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 14 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 15 This bill provides that the custodian of a public building 16 shall raise the national league of POW/MIA families’ flag upon 17 each secular day when weather conditions are favorable. The 18 bill provides that the national league of POW/MIA families’ 19 flag shall be flown underneath the flag of the United States of 20 America and the flag of the state of Iowa. 21 -1- LSB 6361YC (1) 88 ec/rn 1/ 1