HF 2930

2nd Engrossment - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state government; requiring flags in the 
  1.3             Capitol area to be flown at half-staff following death 
  1.4             of a public safety officer or Minnesota military 
  1.5             personnel killed in the line of duty; proposing coding 
  1.6             for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 1. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [1.51] [FLAGS FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF FOLLOWING 
  1.9   PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER DEATH.] 
  1.10     Each American flag and Minnesota flag flown on the grounds 
  1.11  of the Capitol area, as described in section 15B.02, must be 
  1.12  flown at half-staff following the death of a public safety 
  1.13  officer, as defined in section 299A.41, subdivision 4, killed in 
  1.14  the line of duty in Minnesota, or the death of Minnesota 
  1.15  military personnel killed in the line of duty.  The flags must 
  1.16  be flown at half-staff for a period of time determined by the 
  1.17  governor.