Bill Text: NJ A3507 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

New Jersey Assembly Bill 3507 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires Governor notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-12 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A3507 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A3507-Amended.html

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3507

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman NELSON T. ALBANO

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

Assemblyman MATTHEW W. MILAM

District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)

Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman DeAngelo

SYNOPSIS

Requires Governor notify local governments to fly United States and State flags at half-staff upon death of member of Armed Forces of United States or National Guard who was State resident.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

As reported by the Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee on December 12, 2011, with amendments.

An Act concerning flying the United States and State flags at half-staff and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

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

1. The Governor shall ¹[direct the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs]¹, upon notification and verification of the death of an active service member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America or of the National Guard who was a resident of New Jersey, ¹[to]¹ notify all county and municipal governing bodies of the death of the service member, and ¹[the department]¹ shall direct that the United States flag and the State flag, located within or outside of the public building where the governing body regularly convenes, be flown at half-staff. The ¹[Adjutant General] Governor¹ shall specify the day on which the flags shall be flown at half-staff upon an existing flagstaff or flagstaffs.