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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 900
To require certain flags of the United States to be made in the United
States, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH6, 2025
Mr. C
RUZ(for himself, Mr. TILLIS, and Mr. SCOTTof Florida) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN FLAGS OF UNITED 6
STATES TO BE MADE IN UNITED STATES. 7
(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR CERTAINFLAGS OFUNITED 8
S
TATESTOBEMADE INUNITEDSTATES.—Chapter 1 9
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of title 4, United States Code, is amended by adding at 1
the end the following: 2
‘‘SEC. 11. DISPLAY ON FEDERAL PROPERTY; PROCURE-3
MENT BY FEDERAL AGENCIES. 4
‘‘(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
‘‘(1) F
EDERAL AGENCY .—The term ‘Federal 6
agency’ means— 7
‘‘(A) an Executive agency; 8
‘‘(B) a military department; 9
‘‘(C) an office, agency, or other establish-10
ment in the legislative branch; 11
‘‘(D) an office, agency, or other establish-12
ment in the judicial branch; 13
‘‘(E) the Government of the District of Co-14
lumbia; and 15
‘‘(F) a Government controlled corporation. 16
‘‘(2) F
EDERAL PROPERTY .—The term ‘Federal 17
property’ means real property owned, leased, or oc-18
cupied by a Federal agency or an instrumentality 19
wholly owned by the United States. 20
‘‘(3) M
ADE IN THE UNITED STATES .—The term 21
‘made in the United States’ means 100 percent 22
manufactured in the United States from articles, 23
materials, or supplies that have been 100 percent 24
produced or manufactured in the United States. 25
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‘‘(4) UNITED STATES.—The term ‘United 1
States’, when used in a geographic sense, includes 2
each of the several States, the District of Columbia, 3
Tribal lands, and the territories or possessions of the 4
United States. 5
‘‘(b) D
ISPLAY ONFEDERALPROPERTY.—A Federal 6
agency may not display a flag of the United States on 7
Federal property unless such flag has been made in the 8
United States. 9
‘‘(c) P
ROCUREMENT BY FEDERALAGENCIES.— 10
Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to a Fed-11
eral agency may not be used for the procurement of a flag 12
of the United States unless such flag has been made in 13
the United States. 14
‘‘(d) I
NTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.—This section 15
shall be applied in a manner consistent with the obliga-16
tions of the United States under international agreements. 17
‘‘(e) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-18
tion may be construed to apply to the display or procure-19
ment of a flag of the United States by a private actor.’’. 20
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 21
for chapter 1 of title 4, United States Code, is amended 22
by adding at the end the following: 23
‘‘11. Display on Federal property; procurement by Federal agencies.’’.
(c) APPLICABILITY.—Section 11 of title 4, United 24
States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply— 25
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(1) with respect to the display of a flag of the 1
United States by a Federal agency, on and after the 2
date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment 3
of this Act; and 4
(2) with respect to the procurement of a flag of 5
the United States by a Federal agency, on and after 6
the date that is 90 days after the date of the enact-7
ment of this Act. 8
SEC. 3. STUDY ON COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN LABELING FOR 9
FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES. 10
(a) S
TUDY.—The Chair of the Federal Trade Com-11
mission shall conduct a study that— 12
(1) assesses and describes the enforcement 13
scheme for country-of-origin labeling for flags of the 14
United States; 15
(2) determines how many fines or penalties, if 16
any, have been imposed for violations of such en-17
forcement scheme; and 18
(3) identifies the percentage of violations of 19
such enforcement scheme that are subsequent viola-20
tions committed by an entity that has previously 21
been found to have violated such scheme. 22
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 23
of the enactment of this Act, the Chair of the Federal 24
Trade Commission shall submit to the Committee on En-25
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ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and 1
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 2
of the Senate a report containing— 3
(1) the results of the study conducted under 4
subsection (a); and 5
(2) any recommendations to improve— 6
(A) the enforcement scheme for country-of- 7
origin labeling for flags of the United States; 8
and 9
(B) the deterrent effect of such scheme. 10
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