Bill Details
HR.1310 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-13 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-13
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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This bill would stop the U.S. Postal Service from closing, merging, or downgrading its main mail processing and distribution centers in any state if that would leave the state with no such center at all. In simple terms, it aims to keep at least one key postal processing facility operating in each state and the District of Columbia so mail can continue to be handled locally and on time.
- The rule applies to postal processing and distribution centers, which are facilities that sort, send, and receive mail for a service area.
- It would block the Postal Service from taking any similar action that would result in a state having no processing and distribution center.
- The bill defines these centers to include certain main mail facilities, such as sectional center facilities, general mail facilities, and dedicated mail processing facilities without a station or branch.
- The law would cover all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1310 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1310
To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal
Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2025
Ms. Hageman (for herself and Mr. Pappas) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal
Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Postal Operations Stay Timely And
Local Act'' or the ``POSTAL Act''.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OR CONSOLIDATING POSTAL SERVICE
PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN STATES.
(a) In General.--The United States Postal Service may not close,
consolidate, downgrade, or take any other similar action with respect
to any processing and distribution center in a State if such action
would result in no such center being located in that State.
(b) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``processing and distribution center'' means a
central mail facility that--
(A) distributes and dispatches part or all of both
incoming mail and outgoing mail for a designated
service area;
(B) provides instructions on the preparation of
collection mail, dispatch schedules, and sorting plan
requirements to mailers; and
(C) is a sectional center facility, a general mail
facility, or a dedicated mail processing facility
without a station or branch; and
(2) the term ``State'' means the 50 States and the District
of Columbia.
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