HSB 244 (LSB 2626YC (1) 91)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON BODEN)

A BILL FOR

An Act concerning the display of the national league of families POW/MIA flag.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 1B.3, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   1B.3  Flags on public buildings.
   1.  It shall be the duty of any A board of public officers charged with providing supplies for a public building in the state to shall provide a suitable state flag, and it shall be the duty of the custodian of that public building to shall raise the flags of the United States of America and the state of Iowa, upon each secular day when weather conditions are favorable.
   2.  The custodian of a public building is authorized to raise the national league of families POW/MIA flag upon each secular day when weather conditions are favorable. If a custodian of a public building raises the national league of families POW/MIA flag, the flag shall be flown second in order of precedence directly underneath, or adjacent to, the flag of the United States of America.
   3.  To honor Iowa veterans who are missing in action or prisoners of war, the national league of families POW/MIA flag shall be flown at all state-owned buildings in accordance with federal rules.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that a custodian of a public building may raise the national league of families POW/MIA flag upon each secular day when weather conditions are favorable. If the national league of families POW/MIA flag is flown by a public building, it must be flown second in order of precedence, directly underneath, or adjacent to, the flag of the United States of America. The bill requires all state-owned buildings to display the national league of families POW/MIA flag in accordance with federal rules.