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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 279 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique |
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| 6 | 6 | | ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY9, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. G |
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| 10 | 10 | | RIFFITHintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a |
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| 14 | 14 | | single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for |
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| 15 | 15 | | other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. ZIP CODE FOR FAIRLAWN, VIRGINIA. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | (a) S |
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| 20 | 20 | | ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | gress that— 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) the Commonwealth of Virginia is the only 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | State in the United States where all cities are inde-7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | pendent from their surrounding counties; 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:16 Feb 01, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H279.IH H279 |
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| 26 | 26 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 279 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) these independent cities are not politically a 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | part of the surrounding counties, even if they are lo-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | cated within their borders; 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (3) in Virginia these independent cities are sub-4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ject to separate revenue collection and distribution 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | practices related to roads, resources, and sales tax 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | than neighboring counties; 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (4) the sales tax collected from electronic com-8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | merce from the unincorporated community of 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Fairlawn, Virginia, located in Pulaski County, is 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | often misallocated to the independent city of 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Radford, Virginia, because they share the same ZIP 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Codes; and 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (5) Fairlawn, Virginia, should be eligible to ob-14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | tain a separate and unique ZIP Code from the 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | neighboring independent city of Radford, Virginia, 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | for tax purposes. 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (b) ZIP C |
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| 46 | 46 | | ODEDESIGNATION.—Not later than 180 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | United States Postal Service shall designate a single, 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | unique ZIP Code applicable to Fairlawn, Virginia. 21 |
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