HB 84 - State flag; change design
Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions
HB 84 - State flag; change design
Page Numbers - 1/ 2
Code Sections - 50-3-1
1. Jones 71st 2. Randall 127th
House Comm: Rules / Senate Comm: /
House Vote: Yeas Nays Senate Vote: Yeas Nays
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House Action Senate
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1/9/95 Read 1st Time
1/10/95 Read 2nd Time
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Rules Suspended to Introduce
Code Sections amended: 50-3-1
HB 84 LC 21 3007
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1- 1 To amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official
1- 2 Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and
1- 3 other flags, so as to change the design and description of
1- 4 the state flag; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
1- 5 purposes.
1- 6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
1- 7 Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of
1- 8 Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and other
1- 9 flags, is amended by striking Code Section 50-3-1, relating
1-10 to the description of the state flag, and inserting in lieu
1-11 thereof a new Code Section 50-3-1 to read as follows:
1-12 "50-3-1. (Index)
1-13 The flag of the State of Georgia shall be a vertical band
1-14 of blue occupying one-third of the entire flag nearest to
1-15 the flagstaff. The remainder of the space shall be a
1-16 square, two-thirds the length of the flag, having a red
1-17 background with a broad saltire of blue bordered with
1-18 white on which 13 white mullets or five-pointed stars,
1-19 corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States
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1-21 Congress, are emblazoned; so that such remainder shall be
1-22 the same as the union of the flag of the Confederate
1-23 States as approved and cited in Statutes at Large of the
1-24 Confederate States Congress, 1st and 2nd Sessions,
1-25 1862-63, 1863-64, and approved May 1, 1863, such remainder
1-26 being popularly known as the Battle Flag of the
1-27 Confederacy equally divided into three horizontal bands,
1-28 the upper and lower of which shall be scarlet in color and
1-29 the middle of which shall be white in color. On the blue
1-30 field shall be stamped, painted, or embroidered the coat
1-31 of arms of the state. Every force of the organized
1-32 militia shall carry this flag when on parade or review."
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LC 21 3007
SECTION 2.
2- 1 Alllaws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
2- 2 repealed.
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