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 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 113

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

Mrs. Bustos (for herself, Mr. Kinzinger, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
 Peters, Ms. Meng, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Frankel, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bishop of 
Georgia, Ms. Norton, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Soto, 
  Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Foster, Mr. Kilmer, Mrs. Carolyn B. 
  Maloney of New York, and Ms. Brownley of California) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                                 Reform

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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 for Agencies To Buy Domestically Made United States 
Flags.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 63 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 6310. Requirement for agencies to buy domestically made United 
              States flags
    ``(a) Requirement.--Except as provided in subsections (b) through 
(d), funds appropriated or otherwise available to an agency may not be 
used for the procurement of any flag of the United States, unless such 
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.
    ``(b) Availability Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply to the 
extent that the head of the agency concerned 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.
    ``(c) Exception for Certain Procurements.--Subsection (a) does not 
apply to the following:
            ``(1) Procurements by vessels in foreign waters.
            ``(2) Procurements for resale purposes in any military 
        commissary, military exchange, or nonappropriated fund 
        instrumentality operated by an agency.
            ``(3) Procurements for amounts less than the simplified 
        acquisition threshold.
    ``(d) Presidential Waiver.--
            ``(1) In general.--The President may waive the requirement 
        in subsection (a) if the President determines 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 
        granting a waiver under paragraph (1), the President shall 
        publish a notice of the waiver in the Federal Register.
    ``(e) 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 that 
        term in section 134.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
        following new item:

``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 
the enactment of this Act.
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