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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1473 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain requirements |
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| 6 | 6 | | when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other facility supporting |
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| 7 | 7 | | a post office, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY21, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | AGEMAN(for herself and Mr. CLEAVER) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain |
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| 15 | 15 | | requirements when closing a processing, shipping, deliv- |
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| 16 | 16 | | ery, or other facility supporting a post office, and for |
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| 17 | 17 | | other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Postal Processing Pro-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tection Act’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | amended— 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 1473 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘any post of-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | fice’’ and inserting ‘‘any post office, or any accept-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Service that supports 1 or more post offices’’; 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) in paragraph (2)— 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (A), by striking ‘‘a post office’’ and inserting ‘‘a 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | post office, or an acceptance, processing, ship-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | is owned or operated by the Postal Service that 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | supports 1 or more post offices’’; and 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (B) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘post offices’’ and inserting ‘‘post offices, or ac-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, dis-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | tribution, or other facilities that are owned or 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | operated by the Postal Service that support 1 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | or more post offices,’’; 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘a post office’’ 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | and inserting ‘‘a post office, or an acceptance, proc-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | essing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facil-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ity that is owned or operated by the Postal Service 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | that supports 1 or more post offices,’’; 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘a post office’’ 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | and inserting ‘‘a post office, or an acceptance, proc-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 1473 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | essing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facil-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ity that is owned or operated by the Postal Service 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | that supports 1 or more post offices,’’; and 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (5) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘any post of-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | fice’’ and inserting ‘‘any post office, or any accept-5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | other facility that is owned or operated by the Postal 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Service that supports 1 or more post offices,’’. 8 |
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