No. HB 347
Filed under Environment & Water.
Adoption and Display of Flags by Governmental Entities; Prohibits governmental entity from displaying, placing, or causing to be placed certain flags on real property; specifies flags governmental entity may display on such property; provides requirements for governmental entity that displays flag of United States; prohibits local government from adopting certain ordinances or regulations relating to flag of local government; provides that certain ordinances & regulations are void.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEvery governmental entity in Florida -- state agencies, local governments, school boards, courts, and universities -- may only display flags from a specific approved list on public property, or face a $500-a-day fine.
Even an approved flag is banned if it depicts anything representing political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation, and any government body that displays the U.S. flag must give it the top position.
Cities, counties, and other local governments may not adopt an ordinance or regulation authorizing their own flag to carry that same content, and any existing rule that conflicts is void immediately, with no repeal required.
The approved list covers the U.S. and state flags, other states' and countries' flags, military and POW-MIA flags, tribal flags, school and university flags, and Olympic or sports-hosting flags tied to Florida.
AIBars any governmental entity from displaying a flag on real property unless it appears on a specific list of permitted flags, covering everything from the U.S. and state flags to military, tribal, school, and sports-hosting flags.
AIAn otherwise-permitted flag is still banned from display if it contains or depicts anything representing political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation, layering a content restriction on top of the approved list.
AIA city, county, or other local government may not adopt an ordinance or regulation letting its own local government flag contain or depict political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
AIAny local ordinance or regulation already on the books, or adopted later, that conflicts with the new local-flag content ban is void, with no separate repeal action required by the local government.
AIA governmental entity that violates the flag-display restrictions is liable for a civil fine of $500 per day, with proceeds collected by the Department of State and deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
AIAny governmental entity that displays the United States flag must position it more prominently than any other flag on display at that location.