Pride and MAGA flags and other political banners would be banned in governmental offices if a Sen. Clay Yarborough bill becomes law.
SB 426 proposes “prohibiting a governmental entity from displaying, placing, or causing to be placed certain flags on real property … which contains or depicts any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, symbol, or advertisement of any nature which represents political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation.”
Violations could lead to daily fines of $500.
The bill would permit some flags, including those of other countries, to be displayed.
The bill has special stipulations for local governments.
They “may not adopt an ordinance or regulation that authorizes the flag of the local government to contain or depict any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, symbol, or advertisement of any nature which represents political partisanship, political ideology, race, gender, or sexual orientation.”
Any ordinance they might have passed permitting that would be rescinded upon SB 426 becoming law.
A version of this legislation was carried by former Senator Randy Fine in the 2025 Legislative Session, but it was withdrawn when he was elected to Congress.
