First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0091.01 Amanda King          SENATE BILL 11-033
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Kopp, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Kerr J., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the honor and remember flag.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, it is a class 1 petty offense to display a flag other than
       the flag of the United States or certain other flags on a permanent
       flagstaff located on public buildings or grounds.  The bill adds the honor
       and remember flag to the list of other flags allowed to be displayed.
            On certain holidays, the bill requires the honor and remember flag
       to be displayed at the state capitol and permits the honor and remember
       flag to be displayed on other state-owned flagstaffs.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  18-11-205 (4) (a) (V), Colorado Revised Statutes,
       is amended to read:
            18-11-205.  Unlawful to display flag - exceptions.  (4) (a)  This
       section does not apply to:
            (V)  The display of a prisoners of war and missing in action flag
       or other appropriate veteran commemorative, United States or state armed
       forces, or military commemorative flag, when displayed in accordance
       with 4 U.S.C. sec. 7, or of an honor and remember flag, as defined
       in section 27-91-108 (1) (b) (II), C.R.S., when displayed in
       accordance with 4 U.S.C. sec. 7;
            SECTION 2.  27-91-108 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended to read:
            27-91-108.  Display of flags.  (1) (a)  The chief administrative
       officer of any state institution supported in whole or in part by the state
       and under the control of the state shall have erected and maintained, at the
       entrance of the institution or on the principal administrative building or
       grounds thereof, a suitable flagstaff with the attachments necessary for
       the display of flags and shall cause to be displayed thereon the flags of the
       United States and of the state of Colorado.  The flag of the state of
       Colorado shall be the same size as the flag of the United States with
       which it is displayed.  If both flags are displayed on one flagstaff, the flag
       of the state of Colorado shall be placed below the flag of the United
       States.
            (b) (I)  Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b.5) of
       subsection (2) of this section, an honor and remember flag may
       be displayed on Memorial day and Veterans' day on a flagstaff
       erected and maintained by a state institution.  If displayed
       pursuant to this paragraph (b), the honor and remember flag
       shall be placed below the flag of the state of Colorado, if both
       flags are displayed on one flagstaff.
            (II)  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise
       requires, "honor and remember flag" means a flag consisting of
       a red field above a smaller white field.  A gold star with a white
       border and a blue outline shall appear in the center of the flag. 
       The star shall contain a red and blue flame.  Below the star
       shall be a blue triangle with white stars that resembles a
       folded flag of the United States.  In the white field the phrase
       "honor and remember" shall be printed in blue letters.  All
       honor and remember flags purchased by the state shall be made
       in the United States.
            SECTION 3.  27-91-108 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
            27-91-108.  Display of flags.  (2) (b.5)  On Memorial day and
       Veterans' day, an honor and remember flag shall be displayed
       on each flagstaff on the capitol grounds.  The honor and
       remember flag shall be placed below the flag of the state of
       Colorado, if both flags are displayed on one flagstaff.
            SECTION 4.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.