FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 786

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MEADOWS (Sponsor), ROORDA, WILDBERGER, SALVA,

 WAGNER, SELBY AND SHOEMYER (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1^st time March 14, 2005 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

2068L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the display of the POW/MIA flag.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 9.136, to read as follows:

            9.136. All government buildings, businesses, and citizens of the state of Missouri are encouraged to display the POW/MIA flag, which is designed to commemorate the service and sacrifice of the members of the armed forces of the United States who were prisoners of war or missing in action, on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, September eleventh, and Veterans Day.