All-American Flag Act

All-American Flag Act

Requires any flags of the United States acquired for use by the federal government to be entirely manufactured in the United States from articles, materials, or supplies entirely grown, produced, or manufactured in the United States.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 916 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 916

To require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States 
             of America for use by the Federal Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 12, 2015

  Mrs. Bustos (for herself, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
 King of New York, Mr. Jones, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Murphy of 
 Florida, Ms. Edwards, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Cartwright, 
Ms. Esty, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Delaney, Mrs. Brooks of 
Indiana, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Peters, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney 
of New York, Mr. Carney, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Kelly 
 of Pennsylvania, Mr. Renacci, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Joyce, Mr. 
Kilmer, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Clark of 
 Massachusetts, Ms. Sinema, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. 
Kildee, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Hahn, Ms. 
Kuster, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Heck of Washington, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Sires, 
   Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Clay, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. McNerney, Mr. 
Conyers, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Payne, 
 Mr. Meeks, Mrs. Beatty, Ms. Norton, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
 Ben Ray Lujaan of New Mexico, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Danny K. 
    Davis of Illinois, Mr. Rush, Mr. Butterfield, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
Ruppersberger, Mr. Vela, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Gutieerrez, Mr. 
    Langevin, Ms. Brownley of California, Ms. Brown of Florida, Ms. 
   DeGette, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Speier, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Gibson, Mr. Katko, Mr. Guinta, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Grayson, Mr. Bera, Mr. 
   Lynch, Ms. Chu of California, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Pingree, and Mr. 
  Loebsack) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States 
             of America for use by the Federal Government.

    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 ``All-American Flag Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR PURCHASE OF DOMESTICALLY MADE UNITED STATES 
              FLAGS FOR USE BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

    Only such flags of the United States of America, regardless of 
size, that are 100 percent manufactured in the United States, from 
articles, materials, or supplies 100 percent of which are grown, 
produced, or manufactured in the United States, may be acquired for use 
by the Federal Government.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 2 shall apply to purchases of flags made on or after 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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