Title: Flag Standardization Act of 2021
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Flag Standardization Act of 2021
This bill limits the flags that may be flown on federal property.
Specifically, the flags that may be flown on such property are (1) the flag of the United States, (2) the flag of a state, (3) the flag of an Indian tribal government, (4) a flag of the U.S. Armed Forces, or (5) the National League of Families POW/MIA flag.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4392 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4392

 To amend title 4, United States Code, to limit the flags that may be 
           flown on Federal property, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2021

Mrs. Miller-Meeks introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 4, United States Code, to limit the flags that may be 
           flown on Federal property, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Flag Standardization Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FLAGS FLOWN ON FEDERAL PROPERTY.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 4, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 11. Flags flown on Federal property.
    ``(a) In General.--Only one or more specified flags may be flown on 
Federal property.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Specified flag.-- The term `specified flag' means one 
        of the following:
                    ``(A) The flag of the United States.
                    ``(B) The flag of a State.
                    ``(C) The flag of an Indian Tribal government.
                    ``(D) A flag of the Armed Forces of the United 
                States.
                    ``(E) The National League of Families POW/MIA flag.
            ``(2) State.--The term `State' means each State, the 
        District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 
        American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
        Islands.
            ``(3) Indian tribal government.--The term `Indian Tribal 
        government' means the governing body of any Indian or Alaska 
        Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that 
        the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an 
        Indian tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List 
        Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a et seq.).
    ``(c) Rule of Construction.--For the purposes of this section, the 
term `federal property' shall not be construed to include military 
housing.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 1 of title 4, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
item:

``11. Flags flown on Federal property.''.
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