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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 380 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United States, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY14, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | ASE(for himself, Mr. MOYLAN, Mr. HERNA´NDEZ, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, |
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| 11 | 11 | | and Mrs. K |
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| 12 | 12 | | ING-HINDS) introduced the following bill; which was referred |
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| 13 | 13 | | to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- |
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| 14 | 14 | | mittee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subse- |
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| 15 | 15 | | quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such |
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| 16 | 16 | | provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of |
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| 19 | 19 | | the United States, 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 ‘‘Affordable Shipping 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | for All Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON HIGHER SHIPPING FEES. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | No shipping service may exceed the shipping charge 7 |
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| 27 | 27 | | for the same product to and from a location in the contig-8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | uous United States as charged to a consumer product or 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | producer good to the noncontiguous area of the United 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | States. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON EXCLUDING NONCONTIGUOUS 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | AREAS. 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | No shipping service may exclude— 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (1) a noncontiguous area of the United States 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | from its shipping polices; or 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) a noncontiguous area of the United States 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | from shipping to its location. 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SEC. 4. EXEMPTIONS. 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Any consumer product or producer good valued at 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | more than $10,000 shall be exempt from the requirements 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | of this Act. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | In this Act: 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (1) C |
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| 48 | 48 | | ONSUMER PRODUCTS .—The term ‘‘con-17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | sumer products’’ means the finished commodities for 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | end-user use that will go directly to the consumer. 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) C |
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| 52 | 52 | | ONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES .—The term 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘contiguous United States’’ shall refer to the 48 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | contiguous States and the District of Columbia. 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (3) N |
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| 56 | 56 | | ONCONTIGUOUS AREA .—The term ‘‘non-23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | contiguous area’’ means any part of the United 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | States not physically connected to the contiguous 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | United States, including Alaska and Hawaii and any 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Vir-3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | gin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Mariana Islands. 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (4) P |
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| 68 | 68 | | RODUCER GOODS .—The term ‘‘producer 6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | goods’’ means raw materials used to produce other 7 |
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| 70 | 70 | | products. 8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (5) S |
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| 72 | 72 | | HIPPING SERVICES.—The term ‘‘shipping 9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | service’’— 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (A) means private companies whose pri-11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | mary business model is the transporting of 12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | products for retailers; and 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (B) includes the United States Postal 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | Service. 15 |
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