Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB1615

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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).

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)

Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county board to provide United States national flags of not less than four by eight feet in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a suitable flag-staff to be placed on the top of or on the grounds of the court house in its respective county, and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each and every county in the State to see that the flag so provided shall be hoisted on its flag-staff above or at the court house and kept floating from eight o'clock a.m. to five o'clock p.m. on each and every legal holiday of the year, and on such other days as the county board may direct.

The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag at the court house in its county, either upon the same flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise.

(Source: P.A. 93-697, eff. 7-9-04.)