S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 1B.3, Code 2019, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 1B.3 Flags on public buildings. 3 1. It shall be the duty of any board of public officers 4 charged with providing supplies for a public building in the 5 state to provide a suitable state flag and it shall be the duty 6 of the custodian of that public building to raise the flags of 7 the United States of America and the state of Iowa, upon each 8 secular day when weather conditions are favorable. 9 2. The custodian of a public building shall be authorized 10 to raise the national league of POW/MIA families’ flag on a 11 flag pole on the third Saturday in May, Memorial Day, June 12 14, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and the day designated by 13 proclamation of the president of the United States as national 14 POW/MIA recognition day. If the custodian of a public building 15 raises the national league of POW/MIA families’ flag on a 16 flag pole, the flag shall be no larger than the flag of the 17 United States of America and shall be flown second in order of 18 precedence directly underneath, or adjacent to, the flag of the 19 United States of America. 20 EXPLANATION 21 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 22 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 23 This bill provides that a custodian of a public building 24 may raise the national league of POW/MIA families’ flag on the 25 third Saturday in May, Memorial Day, June 14, Independence 26 Day, Veterans Day, and the day designated by presidential 27 proclamation as national POW/MIA recognition day. 28 The bill further provides that if the national league of 29 POW/MIA families’ flag is flown on a flag pole of a public 30 building, it shall be no larger than and flown, second in order 31 of precedence, directly underneath, or adjacent to, the flag of 32 the United States of America. 33 -1- LSB 1032XC (3) 88 mo/rn 1/ 1