Title: All-American Flag Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
All-American Flag Act
This bill prohibits agencies from using funds to procure a U.S. flag unless such flag has been manufactured in the United States from materials that have been U.S. grown, produced, or manufactured. The bill specifies exceptions to this prohibition, including an exception if flags of satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity cannot be procured as needed at market prices.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3068 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3068

To require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States 
             of America for use by the Federal Government.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 14, 2018

Mr. Brown (for himself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States 
             of America for use by the Federal Government.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``All-American Flag Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR AGENCIES TO BUY DOMESTICALLY MADE UNITED STATES 
              FLAGS.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 63 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 6310. Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United 
              States flags
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Agency.--The term `agency' has the meaning given the 
        term `executive agency' in section 102 of title 40.
            ``(2) Simplified acquisition threshold.--The term 
        `simplified acquisition threshold' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 134.
    ``(b) Requirement.--Except as provided in subsections (c), (d), and 
(e), funds appropriated or otherwise made available to an agency may 
not be used for the procurement of any flag of the United States, 
unless the flag has been 100 percent manufactured in the United States 
from articles, materials, or supplies that have been grown or 100 
percent produced or manufactured in the United States.
    ``(c) Availability Exception.--Subsection (b) shall not apply to an 
agency to the extent that the head of the agency determines that 
satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of a flag described in 
such subsection cannot be procured as and when needed at United States 
market prices.
    ``(d) Exception for Certain Procurements.--Subsection (b) shall not 
apply to--
            ``(1) a procurement by a vessel in foreign waters;
            ``(2) a procurement for resale purposes in any military 
        commissary, military exchange, gift shop, or nonappropriated 
        fund instrumentality operated by an agency; or
            ``(3) a procurement for amounts less than the simplified 
        acquisition threshold.
    ``(e) Presidential Waiver.--
            ``(1) In general.--The President may waive the requirement 
        in subsection (b) if the President determines that a waiver is 
        necessary to comply with any trade agreement to which the 
        United States is a party.
            ``(2) Notice of waiver.--Not later than 30 days after the 
        date on which the President grants a waiver under paragraph 
        (1), the President shall publish notice of the waiver in the 
        Federal Register.''.
            (2) Technical and conforming amendment.--The table of 
        sections for chapter 63 of title 41, United States Code, is 
        amended by adding at the end the following:

``6310. Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United States 
                            flags.''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 6310 of title 41, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a)(1), shall apply with respect to any contract 
entered into on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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