Bill Text: MO HB704 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the display of the Honor and Remember flag at all state buildings and state parks

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-17 - Referred: Tourism and Natural Resources(H) [HB704 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2013-HB704-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 704

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MCKENNA (Sponsor), DAVIS, SOMMER, SPENCER, RIZZO, WALTON GRAY, CARPENTER, DUNN, OTTO, GANNON, LYNCH, PIKE, SOLON, DOHRMAN, BURNS, MCCAHERTY, HANSEN, NETH, NEELY, SHUMAKE, BAHR, CONWAY (10), ROORDA AND BUTLER (Co-sponsors).

1831H.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal sections 8.012 and 253.048, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the display of the Honor and Remember flag at state buildings and state parks.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Sections 8.012 and 253.048, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 8.012 and 253.048, to read as follows:

            8.012. At all state buildings and upon the grounds thereof, the board of public buildings may accompany the display of the flag of the United States and the flag of this state with the display of the POW/MIA flag, which is designed to commemorate the service and sacrifice of the members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were prisoners of war or missing in action and with the display of the Honor and Remember flag as an official recognition and in honor of fallen members of the Armed Forces of the United States.

            253.048. Within the state parks, the department may accompany the display of the flag of the United States and the flag of this state with the display of the MIA/POW flag, which is designed to commemorate the service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were prisoners of war or missing in action and with the display of the Honor and Remember flag as an official recognition and in honor of fallen members of the Armed Forces of the United States.

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