Florida Senate - 2011 SB 726 By Senator Bullard 39-00897-11 2011726__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to state symbols; creating s. 15.0465, 3 F.S.; designating the schooner Western Union as the 4 official state flagship; providing an effective date. 5 6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 7 8 Section 1. Section 15.0465, Florida Statutes, is created to 9 read: 10 15.0465 Official state flagship.—The schooner Western 11 Union, a 130-foot historic sailing vessel of the tall ship 12 class, built in Key West and first launched in 1939, is 13 designated the official state flagship. 14 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.