Bill Text: NJ S1398 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-11-05 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [S1398 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S1398-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1398

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 13, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the purchase of POW-MIA flags with State funds and amending P.L.2009, c.86.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.2009, c.86 (C.52:32-1a) is amended to read as follows: 

     1.    Any flag of the United States, POW-MIA flag, or flag of the State of New Jersey purchased with State funds shall be manufactured in the United States.

(cf:  P.L.2009, c.86, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require that any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States.  Under current law, any flag of the United States of America or flag of the State of New Jersey purchased with State funds should be manufactured in the United States.