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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1615 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 5 ILCS 465/1 | from Ch. 1, par. 3301 |
| Amends the Flag Display Act. Permits the United States national flag to be displayed on the grounds of a courthouse (rather than only on the top of a courthouse). |
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| | HB1615 | | LRB104 08979 BDA 19035 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301) |
| 7 | | Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county board to |
| 8 | | provide United States national flags of not less than four by |
| 9 | | eight feet in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a |
| 10 | | suitable flag-staff to be placed on the top of or on the |
| 11 | | grounds of the court house in its respective county, and it is |
| 12 | | hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each and every county in |
| 13 | | the State to see that the flag so provided shall be hoisted on |
| 14 | | its flag-staff above or at the court house and kept floating |
| 15 | | from eight o'clock a.m. to five o'clock p.m. on each and every |
| 16 | | legal holiday of the year, and on such other days as the county |
| 17 | | board may direct. |
| 18 | | The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag |
| 19 | | at the court house in its county, either upon the same |
| 20 | | flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise. |
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 93-697, eff. 7-9-04.) |