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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 299 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 39, United States Code, to direct the United States Postal |
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| 6 | 6 | | Service to establish rates of postage for packages shipped by priority |
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| 7 | 7 | | mail from the United States to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post |
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| 8 | 8 | | Office, or Diplomatic Post Office, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | JANUARY11, 2023 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. N |
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| 12 | 12 | | ORCROSS(for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following |
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| 13 | 13 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend title 39, United States Code, to direct the United |
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| 16 | 16 | | States Postal Service to establish rates of postage for |
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| 17 | 17 | | packages shipped by priority mail from the United States |
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| 18 | 18 | | to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or |
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| 19 | 19 | | Diplomatic Post Office, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Care Packages for Our 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Heroes Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 299 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RATES OF POSTAGE FOR 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | PACKAGES SHIPPED BY PRIORITY MAIL 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | FROM THE UNITED STATES TO A FOREIGN 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ARMY POST OFFICE, FLEET POST OFFICE, OR 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | DIPLOMATIC POST OFFICE. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (a) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | NGENERAL.—Section 3632 of title 39, United 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | lowing: 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(d) E |
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| 38 | 38 | | XEMPTION.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of this subsection, the Postal Service shall establish rates 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | United States to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Office, or Diplomatic Post Office address whereby such 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | packages may not be charged a zoned rate greater than 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the zone 2 rate (as that term is defined in section 608.9 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | of the Domestic Mail Manual, or any successor manual).’’. 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (b) A |
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| 48 | 48 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | 2401 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by add-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ing at the end the following: 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(h) As reimbursement to the Postal Service for the 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | costs of carrying out subsection (d) of section 3632, there 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | are authorized to be appropriated to the Postal Service 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | for any fiscal year an amount equal to the revenue dif-24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ference between the estimated revenue the Postal Service 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | would have received during such fiscal year if such sub-26 |
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| 59 | 59 | | •HR 299 IH |
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| 60 | 60 | | section had not been enacted and the estimated revenue 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | the Postal Service would receive during such fiscal year 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | as a result of carrying out such subsection.’’. 3 |
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