No. SB 426
Filed under Environment & Water.
Adoption and Display of Flags by Governmental Entities; Prohibiting a governmental entity from displaying, placing, or causing to be placed certain flags on real property; providing a penalty; specifying flags a governmental entity may display on such property; prohibiting a local government from adopting certain ordinances or regulations relating to the flag of the local government, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDGovernmental entities -- including public schools, colleges, and universities -- may only display a flag from a fixed list: the U.S. and state flags, military and POW-MIA flags, tribal flags, and a handful of others.
Even an allowed flag cannot carry any word, symbol, or design representing political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation. Violating either rule costs a governmental entity $500 per day.
Local governments are separately barred from adopting an ordinance that gives their own flag the same kind of ideological or identity-based content, and any conflicting ordinance already on the books is void.
Wherever the U.S. flag is displayed, it must be placed in a more prominent position than any other flag flying alongside it.
AIA governmental entity may not display any flag on its real property other than one from a specific list: the U.S. flag, the state flag, another state's or country's flag, a local political subdivision's flag, a military branch flag, a POW-MIA flag, a recognized Indian tribe's flag, a public school or university's official flag, a flag of historical significance, and specified Olympic, Paralympic, or sporting-event flags.
AIEven a flag otherwise authorized under the enumerated list may not be placed if it contains or depicts any word, figure, symbol, or design of any nature representing political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
AIA governmental entity that violates either the display-list rule or the content rule is liable for a civil fine of $500 for each day of the violation, with proceeds deposited into the state's General Revenue Fund.
AIA local government may not adopt an ordinance or regulation that authorizes its own government flag to contain or depict any word, symbol, or design representing political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation.
AIWhenever a governmental entity displays the United States flag, it must place that flag in a prominent position that outranks any other flag displayed alongside it.