[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 985 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 985

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Armed Forces to 
 display the flags of the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto 
     Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
  Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands whenever the official 
                 flags of all 50 States are displayed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2011

Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mr. Pierluisi, Mr. Faleomavaega, Ms. Bordallo, 
Mrs. Christensen, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Armed Forces to 
 display the flags of the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto 
     Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
  Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands whenever the official 
                 flags of all 50 States are displayed.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DISPLAY OF STATE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND TERRITORIAL 
              FLAGS BY ARMED FORCES.

    Section 2249b of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Display of District of Columbia and Territorial Flags by 
Armed Forces.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that whenever the 
official flags of all 50 States are displayed by the armed forces, such 
display shall include the flags of the District of Columbia, 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.''; 
and
            (2) in the section heading, by striking the colon and all 
        that follows.
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