[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1689 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1689

To amend title 23, United States Code, to reduce the funding available 
  for a State under the national highway performance program and the 
surface transportation program if the State issues a license plate that 
   contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, 
    including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2015

   Mr. Brown introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to reduce the funding available 
  for a State under the national highway performance program and the 
surface transportation program if the State issues a license plate that 
   contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of America, 
    including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of America.

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

SECTION 1. REDUCTION OF APPORTIONMENT FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY 
              PROGRAMS.

    Section 104 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h) Reduction of Apportionment for Certain Federal-Aid Highway 
Programs.--The amount apportioned to a State under paragraphs (1) and 
(2) of subsection (b) shall be reduced by an amount equal to 5 percent 
of those funds--
            ``(1) effective beginning on October 1 of the first fiscal 
        year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
        for each fiscal year in which the State issues a license plate 
        that contains an image of a flag of the Confederate States of 
        America, including the Battle Flag of the Confederate States of 
        America; and
            ``(2) effective beginning on October 1 of the second fiscal 
        year beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
        for each fiscal year in which the State allows a license plate 
        described in paragraph (1) and issued by the State before the 
        first fiscal year referred to in that paragraph to be displayed 
        on a motor vehicle registered in the State.''.
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