Display of state flag.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on how many heirs Mrs. Verna Keyes has or their locations.

Amending Display Rules for Original Wyoming State Flag

This law changes a condition from 1945 about displaying an original Wyoming state flag, allowing Mrs. Keyes or her heirs to donate it for public display and correcting some errors.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the rules so that Mrs. Verna Keyes or her heirs can give the original Wyoming state flag to a public building in Wyoming if they want to.
• Corrects a mistake about when Mrs. Keyes submitted the winning design for the flag, changing it from 'Keyes' to 'Keays'.
• Fixes a typo in the name of Mrs. Keyes, changing it from 'Keays' to 'Keyes'.
• Tells the state historian to give a copy of this law to Mrs. Verna Keyes's known heirs.

Who It Names or Affects

• Mrs. Verna Keyes and her heirs.
• The Wyoming State Historian.
• Public buildings in Wyoming that might receive the original flag for display.

Terms To Know

State Flag

A flag representing a state, often used during official events or displayed at public places.

Typographical Error

An error made when writing or printing something, like misspelling a word or using the wrong letter.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law only affects one specific original Wyoming state flag.
• It does not specify how many heirs Mrs. Keyes has or where they live.
• This change applies to just one of six flags originally made in 1927.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 22LSO-0130
Bill No.:

SF0011

Effective:

7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM

LSO No.:

22LSO-0130

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0036

Chapter No.:

57

Prime Sponsor:

Anderson

Catch Title:

Display of state flag.

Subject:

Amending a condition from the 1945 Wyoming Session Laws restricting the display of an original Wyoming state flag.

Summary/Major Elements:

On February 15, 1919, after the
Daughters
of the American Revolution's statewide competitive program to design the Wyoming state flag, the winning design was formally presented to the state in a Joint Session of the Legislature. Through oversight, the woman who submitted the winning design, Mrs. Verna Keyes, was not recognized.

In 1945 the Wyoming Legislature presented Mrs. A.C. Keyes, then of Casper, with one of the six original flags as the property of, and to remain in the home or homes, of, herself and her heirs only, upon condition that it shall never be otherwise displayed.

This act amends that original condition relating to the display of that original Wyoming state flag to allow Mrs. Keyes or her heirs to donate the flag for public display at a Wyoming state, county, or municipal building. The flag is presently displayed in Casper at the Natrona County Library.

The act also corrects a typographical error, some grammar, and the spelling of Verna's maiden name, Keays.

The act directs the state historian to deliver a copy of the act to the known heirs of Mrs. Verna Keyes.
The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

22LSO-0130

ORIGINAL Senate

ENGROSSED
File No
.
SF0011

ENROLLED ACT NO. 36,

SENATE

SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2022 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to a state flag; amending a condition relating to the display of an original Wyoming state flag; correcting a typographical error; directing the state historian to deliver this act; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

1945 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 96, Section 1 is amended to read:

Section 1.

By Chapter 8, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1917, the Fourteenth Wyoming Legislature adopted the official design of its present State Flag and by Chapter 20, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1927, the Nineteenth Wyoming Legislature made provision for acquisition of six such flags and storage thereof with the State Historian. The original of such flags was formally presented to this State in a Joint Session of the Legislature on February 15, 1919, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, following conclusion of
is
its
state-wide competitive program under which designs for said flag had been received; the winning design, so adopted, was that submitted by Mrs. A.C. Keyes, now of Casper, Wyoming,
and then
at that time
Miss Verna
Keyes
Keays
, of Buffalo, Wyoming, but through oversight, this State's resulting debt of gratitude to her has never been discharged; she has requested in lieu of any other reward or remuneration for service rendered, that one of the flags aforesaid be delivered to her as the property of, and to remain in the home or homes, of, herself and her heirs only, upon condition that it shall never be
otherwise displayed
unless Mrs. Keyes or her heirs undertakes to donate the flag for public display at a Wyoming state, county or municipal building
. The State of Wyoming by and through its Twenty-Eighth Legislature hereby grants such request and instructs said Historian to promptly deliver one such flag to Mrs. Keyes, all upon the terms and condition stated, together with one photostatic copy of this Act, as enrolled.

Section 2.

The Sixty-Sixth Legislature hereby instructs the state historian to promptly deliver to the known heirs of Mrs. Verna Keyes one (1) copy of this act, amending 1945 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 96, Section 1.

Section 3
.

This act is effective July 1, 2022
.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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