Bill Text: NJ S1655 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-22 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S1655 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S1655-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in United States.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the purchase of POW-MIA flags with State funds and amending P.L.2009, c.86.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.2009, c.86 (C.52:32-1a) is amended to read as follows:
1. Any flag of the United States, POW-MIA flag, or flag of the State of New Jersey purchased with State funds shall be manufactured in the United States.
(cf: P.L.2009, c.86, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would require that any POW-MIA flag purchased with State funds be manufactured in the United States. Under current law, any flag of the United States of America or flag of the State of New Jersey purchased with State funds should be manufactured in the United States.