[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3952 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3952

To limit the flags that may be flown over a facility of the Department 
                          of Veterans Affairs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2023

     Mr. Bost (for himself, Mr. Self, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Ezell, Mr. 
 Westerman, Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Rosendale, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. 
Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Guest, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Bean 
 of Florida, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Crane, 
  Mr. Huizenga, and Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit the flags that may be flown over a facility of the Department 
                          of Veterans Affairs.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION OF FLAGS THAT MAY BE FLOWN OVER A FACILITY OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Limitation.--The only flags that may be flown over a facility 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs are the following:
            (1) The flag of the United States.
            (2) The flag of a State.
            (3) The flag of an Indian Tribal government.
            (4) The flag of the Department.
            (5) The flag of an Armed Force.
            (6) The POW/MIA flag.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``State'' means each of the several States, 
        the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
        Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Mariana Islands.
            (2) The term ``Indian Tribal government'' means the 
        governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, 
        nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the 
        Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian Tribe under the 
        Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 
        5130 et seq.).
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