Bill Details
HR.1473 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-21 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-21
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would make the Postal Service follow the same closing rules for certain support facilities that it already uses for post offices. In plain terms, if USPS wants to shut down a processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that helps serve one or more post offices, it would have to use the same requirements and review process that apply when closing a post office. The goal is to give communities and affected areas more protection when important mail facilities are being closed.
- It expands the existing post office closure rules to include certain USPS-owned or USPS-operated support facilities.
- The covered facilities include acceptance, processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, and other facilities that support one or more post offices.
- The bill changes the law that sets out how USPS must handle closure decisions, so these facilities would not be treated differently from post offices for closure purposes.
- Overall, the bill is meant to slow or limit closings by requiring USPS to use the same protections and procedures for these facilities as it does for post offices.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1473 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1473
To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain
requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other
facility supporting a post office, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Ms. Hageman (for herself and Mr. Cleaver) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform
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A BILL
To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain
requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other
facility supporting a post office, 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 Processing Protection Act''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``any post office'' and
inserting ``any post office, or any acceptance, processing,
shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is
owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more
post offices'';
(2) in paragraph (2)--
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by
striking ``a post office'' and inserting ``a post
office, or an acceptance, processing, shipping,
delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned
or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or
more post offices''; and
(B) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking ``post
offices'' and inserting ``post offices, or acceptance,
processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other
facilities that are owned or operated by the Postal
Service that support 1 or more post offices,'';
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a post office'' and
inserting ``a post office, or an acceptance, processing,
shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is
owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more
post offices,'';
(4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``a post office'' and
inserting ``a post office, or an acceptance, processing,
shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is
owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more
post offices,''; and
(5) in paragraph (5), by striking ``any post office'' and
inserting ``any post office, or any acceptance, processing,
shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is
owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more
post offices,''.
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