Bill Text: MS HB1551 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State Flag; change design of to the Bonnie Blue Flag.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee [HB1551 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2016-HB1551-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2016 Regular Session

To: Rules

By: Representatives Myers, Denton, Paden

House Bill 1551

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3-3-16, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CHANGE THE DESIGN OF THE OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 3-3-16, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     3-3-16.  The official flag of the State of Mississippi shall have the following design:  * * * with width two‑thirds (2/3) of its length; with the union (canton) to be square, in width two‑thirds (2/3) of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltire thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five‑pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three (3) bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one, extending the whole length of the flag, red (the national colors); this being the flag adopted by the Mississippi Legislature in the 1894 Special SessionThe width is two-thirds (2/3) of its length; and the field is old glory blue with one (1) large white five-pointed star in the center; this being the Bonnie Blue Flag, which flew over the Republic of West Florida from which the State of Mississippi later emerged, and which was the canton of the Magnolia Flag, the first official flag of the State of Mississippi from 1861 through 1865 that continued in use as a state flag until 1894.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.

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