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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 758
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue regulations requiring
Postal Service employees and contractors to report to the Postal Service
traffic crashes involving vehicles carrying mail that result in injury or
death, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. C
ONNOLLY(for himself and Mr. COMER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To direct the United States Postal Service to issue regula-
tions requiring Postal Service employees and contractors
to report to the Postal Service traffic crashes involving
vehicles carrying mail that result in injury or death,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mail Traffic Deaths 4
Reporting Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. REGULATIONS ON TRAFFIC CRASH DEATHS AND IN-1
JURIES INVOLVING VEHICLES TRANS-2
PORTING MAIL. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 4
date of enactment of this Act, the Postmaster General of 5
the Postal Service shall issue regulations to require the 6
collection, tracking, and public reporting of information 7
related to deaths and injuries resulting from traffic crash-8
es involving vehicles transporting mail. Such regulations 9
shall establish appropriate mechanisms to monitor and en-10
force compliance with the reporting requirements of this 11
Act and may utilize existing reporting mechanisms in use 12
at the time of enactment of this Act. 13
(b) R
EPORTS ONCRASHES.— 14
(1) E
MPLOYEES.—Any employee of the Postal 15
Service engaged in the transportation of mail shall 16
report to the Postal Service any traffic crash involv-17
ing the vehicle the employee was operating during 18
such transportation that resulted in injury or death 19
not later than three days after such crash. 20
(2) C
ONTRACTORS.—Any contractor (of any 21
tier) of the Postal Service engaged in the transpor-22
tation of mail shall report to the Postal Service any 23
traffic crash involving the vehicle the contractor was 24
operating during such transportation that resulted 25
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in injury or death not later than three days after 1
such crash. 2
(3) C
ONTENTS.—Any report submitted under 3
paragraph (1) or (2) shall include detailed informa-4
tion describing, at a minimum, the crash, including 5
the date, time, location, nature of the crash, infor-6
mation identifying the contractor, number of inju-7
ries, fatalities, and any contributing factors to the 8
crash. An employee or contractor (as the case may 9
be) shall update the report, in such form and man-10
ner as the Postal Service deems appropriate, to re-11
flect any change in crash-caused injuries or fatali-12
ties. 13
(4) A
CCOMMODATIONS IN EVENT OF INJURY .— 14
The Postal Service shall provide for procedures 15
under which reports may be submitted under this 16
subsection under an alternative deadline in the event 17
a Postal Service employee or contractor is unable to 18
submit a report due to serious injury resulting from 19
the applicable crash. 20
(5) S
TANDARD FORM .—The Postmaster Gen-21
eral shall create a standard form available to Postal 22
Service employees and contractors for the purposes 23
of submitting reports under this subsection. 24
(c) D
ATABASE.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 1
maintain a continuously updated internal digital 2
database that includes comprehensive information 3
related to deaths and injuries from traffic crashes 4
involving vehicles transporting mail. 5
(2) C
ONTENTS.—The database shall include 6
any information provided by Postal Service employ-7
ees and contractors under subsection (b). 8
(d) R
EPORT.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Postal Service shall 10
make available to the public an annual report sum-11
marizing information related to deaths and injuries 12
from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting 13
mail. 14
(2) C
ONTENTS.—The report shall include ag-15
gregated statistics, trends, and analysis to enhance 16
transparency and accountability. 17
(3) P
RIVACY.—Information in the report shall 18
be made available to the public in a manner that 19
does not personally identify any Postal Service em-20
ployee, contractor, or any other individual. 21
(e) P
ENALTIES.—Any Postal Service contractor who 22
fails to report a traffic crash within the deadline pre-23
scribed under subsection (b) shall be subject to appro-24
priate penalties as determined appropriate by the Postal 25
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Service, including fines, suspension of contracts, or termi-1
nation of contracts. The Postal Service may take into ac-2
count the severity of the applicable traffic crash and the 3
frequency of noncompliance with the requirements of this 4
Act by the applicable Postal Service contractor when de-5
termining which penalty to apply (if any). 6
(f) C
RASHDEFINED.—In this Act, the term 7
‘‘crash’’— 8
(1) means an occurrence involving a commercial 9
motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate 10
or intrastate commerce which results in— 11
(A) a fatality; 12
(B) bodily injury to a person who, as a re-13
sult of the injury, immediately receives medical 14
treatment away from the scene of the accident; 15
or 16
(C) one or more motor vehicles incurring 17
disabling damage as a result of the accident, re-18
quiring at least one of the motor vehicle to be 19
transported away from the scene by a tow truck 20
or other motor vehicle; and 21
(2) does not include— 22
(A) an occurrence involving only boarding 23
and alighting from a stationary motor vehicle; 24
or 25
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(B) an occurrence involving only the load-1
ing or unloading of cargo. 2
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