Bill Text: NJ S420 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits Governor to 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-09-27 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [S420 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S420-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 420

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Senator  DIANE B. ALLEN

District 7 (Burlington)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Whelan and Beck

 

 

 

 

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

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

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, 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, notify all county and municipal governing bodies of the death of the service member, and 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 Governor shall specify the day on which the flags shall be flown at half-staff upon an existing flagstaff or flagstaffs.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that the Governor, 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, notify all county and municipal governing bodies of the death of the member, and direct that the United States flag and the State flag be flown at half-staff, within or outside of the public building where the governing body regularly convenes, on the day specified by the Governor.