To amend title 36, United States Code, to require that the POW/MIA flag be displayed on all days that the flag of the United States is displayed on certain Federal property.

The bill changes the days on which the POW/MIA flag is required to be displayed at specified locations to all days on which the U.S. flag is displayed. (Current law requires the POW/MIA flag to be displayed only on Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, and Veterans Day.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 504 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 504

To amend title 36, United States Code, to require that the POW/MIA flag 
    be displayed on all days that the flag of the United States is 
                 displayed on certain Federal property.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2017

  Mr. Lance introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 36, United States Code, to require that the POW/MIA flag 
    be displayed on all days that the flag of the United States is 
                 displayed on certain Federal property.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DAYS ON WHICH THE POW/MIA FLAG IS DISPLAYED ON CERTAIN 
              FEDERAL PROPERTY.

    Section 902 of title 36, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following 
        new subsection:
    ``(c) Days for Flag Display.--For the purposes of this section, 
POW/MIA flag display days are all days on which the flag of the United 
States is displayed.'';
            (2) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ``Capitol'' and 
        inserting ``U.S. Capitol'';
            (3) in subsection (d)(2) by striking ``White House'' and 
        inserting ``U.S. White House''; and
            (4) in subsection (e) by striking ``Capitol'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``U.S. Capitol''.
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