Hi Rickey,
In an older version of My Government Services, ESRI has the following code which would be around Line 73 in the new version of default.htm
div style="width: 75px; margin-top: 7px;" class="customButton" onclick="HideSplashScreenMessage(); ShowLocateContainer();">
It calls the "ShowLocateContainer" function from Utils.js after someone closes the splash screen. I am not sure if the new version has that function in the Utils.js or not. If it does not, I can post that function also.
Thanks,
Luci