Bill Text: MS HB1272 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State flag; change the design of.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Failed) 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee [HB1272 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2017-HB1272-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2017 Regular Session

To: Rules

By: Representatives Banks, Dortch, Paden, Clarke, Ellis, Straughter, Williams-Barnes

House Bill 1272

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3-3-16, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO  CHANGE THE DESIGN OF THE OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 3-3-16, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     3-3-16.  The official flag of the State of Mississippi shall have the following design:  * * *with width two‑thirds (2/3) of its length; with the union (canton) to be square, in width two‑thirds (2/3) of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltire thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five‑pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three (3) bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one, extending the whole length of the flag, red (the national colors); this being the flag adopted by the Mississippi Legislature in the 1894 Special Session the width is two-thirds (2/3) of its length; the canton corner, located in the upper left hand corner, is square, having a width two-thirds (2/3) of the width of the flag; the canton corner is dark blue with a five-pointed white star in the center; the field is white with a Magnolia grandiflora tree with white flowers located in the center of the fly; and a red border and a red fringe at the edge of the fly.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.

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