After the death of a former president, federal flag code dictates that flags should be flown at half-staff for 30 days. After Former President Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to lower flags to half-staff for the standard period.

With flags in multiple states ordered to full-staff for the presidential inauguration Monday — along with the U.S. Capitol flags — Gov. Ron DeSantis decided Florida will follow suit. Why it matters: Flags were lowered to half-staff nationwide for 30 days of mourning after the Dec.