Amended in Senate April 18, 2016

Senate Bill No. 1012

Introduced by Senator Nguyen

(Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Bates, Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller, and Nielsen)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members begin delete Brough end delete begin insert Brough, Maienschein, end insert and Mathis)

February 11, 2016

An act to add Section 434.7 to the Government Code, relating to flags.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1012, as amended, Nguyen. Flags: purchase.

Existing law requires the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of California to be prominently displayed during business hours upon or in front of the buildings or grounds of each public building belonging to the state, a county, or a municipality, among other places.

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2017, require any Flag of the United States or the Flag of the State of California purchased by the state or any local government agency be made in the begin delete United States from articles, materials, or supplies that were grown, produced, and manufactured in the end delete United States.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 434.7 is added to the Government Code,
to read:

434.7.  

(a) On and after January 1, 2017, any Flag of the United
States or the Flag of the State of California purchased by the state
or any local government agency shall be made in the begin delete United States
from articles, materials, or supplies that were grown, produced,
and manufactured in the end delete United States.

(b) For purposes of this section, the term “local government
agency” means a county, city, city and county, town, municipal
corporation, school district or other district, political subdivision,
or any board, commission, or agency thereof, or other local agency.