Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-12-10 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-21
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
Cosponsors
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- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-Pennsylvania-1]
- Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-Pennsylvania-2]
- Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-Pennsylvania-5]
- Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-Pennsylvania-4]
- Rep. Smucker, Lloyd [R-Pennsylvania-11]
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-Pennsylvania-12]
- Rep. Joyce, John [R-Pennsylvania-13]
- Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-Pennsylvania-16]
- Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-Pennsylvania-3]
- Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-Pennsylvania-6]
- Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-Pennsylvania-14]
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-Pennsylvania-9]
- Rep. Bresnahan, Robert P. [R-Pennsylvania-8]
- Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-Pennsylvania-15]
- Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-Pennsylvania-7]
- Rep. Perry, Scott [R-Pennsylvania-10]
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This bill renames a U.S. Postal Service building in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The post office at that location will now be officially known as the Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” Cole Post Office Building. It is a naming-only bill, so it does not change postal service operations or create new programs or funding.
- The building is located at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
- All future references in government records to that post office should use the new name.
- The change honors Mary Elizabeth “Bettie” Cole.
Official Summaries
This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the "Mary Elizabeth 'Bettie' Cole Post Office Building".Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1461 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1461
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 10, 2025
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located
at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the ``Mary Elizabeth
`Bettie' Cole Post Office Building''.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. MARY ELIZABETH ``BETTIE'' COLE POST OFFICE BUILDING.
(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service
located at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, shall be known
and designated as the ``Mary Elizabeth `Bettie' Cole Post Office
Building''.
(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document,
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to
in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Mary
Elizabeth `Bettie' Cole Post Office Building''.
Passed the House of Representatives December 9, 2025.
Attest:
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
Clerk.