[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1926 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1926

    To provide for the protection of the flag of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 1995

 Mr. Thornton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the protection of the flag of the United States.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Flag Protection Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. FLAG PROTECTION.

    Each copy of the flag of the United States that is intended to be 
displayed as a flag and is made after the date of the enactment of this 
Act shall belong to the people of the United States and be held in 
trust for them by the Government of the United States. The United 
States therefore has a property interest in each such copy, and such 
copies are subject to rules and regulations made under section 3 of 
article IV of the Constitution of the United States. On this basis, the 
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make rules for the use and 
disposition of such copies. Such rules shall allow for the sale and 
transfer of the rights to possess and use such copies. Any damage to or 
destruction of such a copy that is in violation of such rules is a 
depredation against the property of the United States for the purposes 
of section 1361 of title 18, United States Code.
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