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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 569 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal Service |
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| 6 | 6 | | processing and distribution center in States, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. L |
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| 10 | 10 | | UMMIS(for herself, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. BARRASSO, and Mrs. SHAHEEN) |
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| 11 | 11 | | introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States |
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| 15 | 15 | | Postal Service processing and distribution center in |
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| 16 | 16 | | States, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Postal Operations Stay 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Timely and Local Act’’ or the ‘‘POSTAL Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OR CONSOLIDATING 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | POSTAL SERVICE PROCESSING AND DIS-7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | TRIBUTION CENTERS IN STATES. 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (a) D |
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| 26 | 26 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 569 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER .— 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | The term ‘‘processing and distribution center’’ 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | means a central mail facility that— 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (A) distributes and dispatches part or all 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | of both incoming mail and outgoing mail for a 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | designated service area; 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (B) provides instructions on the prepara-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tion of collection mail, dispatch schedules, and 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | sorting plan requirements to mailers; and 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (C) is a sectional center facility, a general 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | mail facility, or a dedicated mail processing fa-11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | cility without a station or branch. 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (2) S |
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| 43 | 43 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | or the District of Columbia. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (b) L |
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| 46 | 46 | | IMITATION.—The United States Postal Service 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | may not close, consolidate, downgrade, or take any other 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | similar action with respect to a processing and distribution 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | center in a State if such action would result in there being 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | no processing and distribution center located in that State. 19 |
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