Bill Text: CA SB1012 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Flags: purchase.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 717, Statutes of 2016. [SB1012 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1012-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1012	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nguyen
   (Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Bates, Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller,
and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brough  , Maienschein,  and
Mathis)

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2016

   An act to add Section 434.7 to the Government Code, relating to
flags.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1012, as amended, Nguyen. Flags: purchase.
   Existing law requires the Flag of the United States and the Flag
of the State of California to be prominently displayed during
business hours upon or in front of the buildings or grounds of each
public building belonging to the state, a county, or a municipality,
among other places.
   This bill would, on and after January 1, 2017, require any Flag of
the United States or the Flag of the State of California purchased
by the state or any local government agency be made in the 
United States from articles, materials, or supplies that were grown,
produced, and manufactured in the  United States.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 434.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   434.7.  (a) On and after January 1, 2017, any Flag of the United
States or the Flag of the State of California purchased by the state
or any local government agency shall be made in the  United
States from articles, materials, or supplies that were grown,
produced, and manufactured in the  United States.
   (b) For purposes of this section, the term "local government
agency" means a county, city, city and county, town, municipal
corporation, school district or other district, political
subdivision, or any board, commission, or agency thereof, or other
local agency.