SB0546 - Tennessee: Criminal Offenses, Flags

Companion Bill HB1409. Flags - Includes failing to place the official flag of the United States on top when such flag is flown on the same pole with other flags as desecration of the flag; penalty is a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-311. Fiscal Summary for *SB0546 / HB1409 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB0546 / HB1409 ON APRIL 23, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1409, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 clarifies that this bill applies to the knowing failure to give the U.S. flag first order of precedence above any other flag that is flown on the same pole as the U.S. flag on property owned, operated, or controlled by the state or any political subdivision of the state, including educational institutions. [...]

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