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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2876 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Chris Miller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 5 ILCS 465/1 | from Ch. 1, par. 3301 | 5 ILCS 465/12 new | |
| Amends the Flag Display Act. Prohibits State institutions, including public school buildings, from displaying any flags other than the national flag of the United States or the flag of the State of Illinois. |
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB2876 | | LRB104 09831 BDA 19899 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State 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 and by adding Section 12 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 the court house |
| 11 | | in its respective county, and it is hereby made the duty of the |
| 12 | | sheriff of each and every county in the State to see that the |
| 13 | | flag so provided shall be hoisted on its flag-staff above the |
| 14 | | court house and kept floating from eight o'clock a.m. to five |
| 15 | | o'clock p.m. on each and every legal holiday of the year, and |
| 16 | | on such other days as the county board may direct. |
| 17 | | The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag |
| 18 | | at the court house in its county, either upon the same |
| 19 | | flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise. |
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 93-697, eff. 7-9-04.)
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| 21 | | (5 ILCS 465/12 new) |
| 22 | | Sec. 12. Other flags prohibited. No State institution, |