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 AJR-32 9/11 Remembrance Flag.(2025-2026)

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AJR32:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Joint Resolution

No. 32

Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio

May 28, 2026

 Relative to the 9/11 Remembrance Flag. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AJR 32, as introduced, Blanca Rubio.
 9/11 Remembrance Flag.

This measure would encourage the chief administrator of each public building or facility owned by the state, a county, or a municipality to display the 9/11 Remembrance Flag on September 11 of each year and to prescribe procedures necessary for its display. The measure would declare that any public official or chief administrator of a public building or facility may accept a donation of one or more 9/11 Remembrance Flags for the purpose of display at a public building or facility owned by the state, a county, or a municipality.

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 Fiscal Committee:
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WHEREAS, September 11, 2001, will forever be one of the darkest days in the history of the United States; and

WHEREAS, Nearly 3,000 people, including citizens of over 90 nations, died as a direct result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, New York; the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia; and in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; and 

WHEREAS, The first responders who served heroically at Ground Zero in the City of New York paid a heavy toll, with over 400 fire, police, and rescue members making the ultimate sacrifice; and 

WHEREAS, All four commercial airline flights hijacked on 9/11 were bound for California; and 

WHEREAS, Over 50 Californians lost their lives on 9/11; and 

WHEREAS, The 9/11 Remembrance Flag was designed by a Virginian on September 20, 2001, to foster the establishment of a national symbol of remembrance that honors and remembers the victims, heroic first responders, and all who were affected by the events of September 11, 2001; and 

WHEREAS, Symbols of the 9/11 Remembrance Flag are represented as follows:

An Old Glory Blue Background symbolizing all Americans united together for freedom;

One White Star symbolizing all who live and died for freedom;

Five White Bars symbolizing the Pentagon and the organized protection of our freedom;

One Top Old Glory Red Stripe symbolizing the bloodshed of the people who perished at the Pentagon and the crew and passengers killed on American Airlines Flight 77;

Two Broad Old Glory Red Stripes symbolizing the Twin Towers and the bloodshed of the people who perished at the World Trade Center and on American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175;

One Bottom Old Glory Red Stripe symbolizing the bloodshed of the crew and passengers who perished on United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania;

Three White Stripes symbolizing the rescue workers, firefighters, police officers, Port Authority employees, and others who worked tirelessly during and after the terrorist attacks; and

WHEREAS, On November 12, 2001, the 9/11 Remembrance Flag was officially adopted by the Virginia Historical Society as part of a special exhibition in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution to commemorate the events of 9/11; and 

WHEREAS, The design of the 9/11 Remembrance Flag adheres to the five principles of “Good Flag Design” defined by the North American Vexillological Association; and 

WHEREAS, In 2018, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously to add the 9/11 Remembrance Flag to the Code of Virginia as Virginia’s official flag of remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001 making it our nation’s first codified 9/11 remembrance flag; and 

WHEREAS, The 9/11 Remembrance Flag has also been adopted by the legislatures of Oklahoma and Delaware, and has flown or been displayed on 9/11 and for Patriot Day lessons in all 50 states, including at numerous schools and civic institutions in California, and in thousands of locations across the United States; and 

WHEREAS, Since the 21st anniversary of 9/11, the 9/11 Remembrance Flag has served a prominent role in the Azusa Rotary Club’s annual 9/11 Field of Glory U.S. Flag Display Event; and 

WHEREAS, Over 7,000 members of the Armed Forces of the United States, including many Californians, have made the ultimate sacrifice in the Global War on Terrorism since September 11,