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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1421
To require certain flags of the United States to be made in the United
States, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY18, 2025
Mr. L
ANGWORTHY (for himself, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr.
T
ONKO, Mr. WEBSTERof Florida, Mr. FINSTAD, Ms. LETLOW, Mr.
L
ANDSMAN, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. DAVISof North Caro-
lina, Mr. H
IGGINSof Louisiana, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. BARRETT, Ms.
T
ENNEY, Mr. GARBARINO, Mr. MOOREof North Carolina, Mr. BIGGSof
Arizona, Mr. B
URLISON, Mr. THANEDAR, and Mr. RULLI) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and
in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
A BILL
To require certain flags of the United States to be made
in the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Make American Flags 4
in America Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN FLAGS OF UNITED 1
STATES TO BE MADE IN UNITED STATES. 2
(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR CERTAINFLAGS OFUNITED 3
S
TATESTOBEMADE INUNITEDSTATES.—Chapter 1 4
of title 4, United States Code, is amended by adding at 5
the end the following: 6
‘‘§ 11. Display on Federal property; procurement by 7
Federal agencies 8
‘‘(a) D
ISPLAY ONFEDERALPROPERTY.—A Federal 9
agency may not display a flag of the United States on 10
Federal property unless such flag has been made in the 11
United States. 12
‘‘(b) P
ROCUREMENT BY FEDERALAGENCIES.— 13
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to a Fed-14
eral agency may not be used for the procurement of a flag 15
of the United States unless such flag has been made in 16
the United States. 17
‘‘(c) I
NTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.—This section 18
shall be applied in a manner consistent with the obliga-19
tions of the United States under international agreements. 20
‘‘(d) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-21
tion may be construed to apply to the display or procure-22
ment of a flag of the United States by a private actor. 23
‘‘(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 24
‘‘(1) F
EDERAL AGENCY .—The term ‘Federal 25
agency’ means— 26
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‘‘(A) an Executive agency; 1
‘‘(B) a military department; 2
‘‘(C) an office, agency, or other establish-3
ment in the legislative branch; 4
‘‘(D) an office, agency, or other establish-5
ment in the judicial branch; 6
‘‘(E) the Government of the District of Co-7
lumbia; and 8
‘‘(F) Government controlled corporations. 9
‘‘(2) F
EDERAL PROPERTY .—The term ‘Federal 10
property’ means real property owned, leased, or oc-11
cupied by a Federal agency or an instrumentality 12
wholly owned by the United States. 13
‘‘(3) M
ADE IN THE UNITED STATES .—The term 14
‘made in the United States’ means 100 percent 15
manufactured in the United States from articles, 16
materials, or supplies that have been 100 percent 17
produced or manufactured in the United States. 18
‘‘(4) U
NITED STATES.—The term ‘United 19
States’, when used in a geographic sense, includes 20
each of the several States, the District of Columbia, 21
Tribal lands, and the territories or possessions of the 22
United States.’’. 23
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(b) CLERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 1
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding 2
at the end the following: 3
‘‘11. Display on Federal property; procurement by Federal agencies.’’.
(c) APPLICABILITY.—Section 11 of title 4, United 4
States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply— 5
(1) with respect to the display of a flag of the 6
United States by a Federal agency, on and after the 7
date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment 8
of this Act; and 9
(2) with respect to the procurement of a flag of 10
the United States by a Federal agency, on and after 11
the date that is 90 days after the date of the enact-12
ment of this Act. 13
SEC. 3. STUDY ON COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN LABELING FOR 14
FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 15
(a) S
TUDY.—The Chair of the Federal Trade Com-16
mission shall conduct a study that— 17
(1) assesses and describes the enforcement 18
scheme for country-of-origin labeling for flags of the 19
United States; 20
(2) determines how many fines or penalties, if 21
any, have been imposed for violations of such en-22
forcement scheme; and 23
(3) identifies the percentage of violations of 24
such enforcement scheme that are subsequent viola-25
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tions committed by an entity that has previously 1
been found to have violated such scheme. 2
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 3
of the enactment of this Act, the Chair of the Federal 4
Trade Commission shall submit to the Committee on En-5
ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and 6
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 7
of the Senate a report containing— 8
(1) the results of the study conducted under 9
subsection (a); and 10
(2) any recommendations to improve— 11
(A) the enforcement scheme for country-of- 12
origin labeling for flags of the United States; 13
and 14
(B) the deterrent effect of such scheme. 15
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