Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-02-25 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-25
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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This bill would require most ads and sales pitches sent through the mail to be clearly marked so people can easily tell they are not personal letters or regular mail. If a mailed item is meant to get someone to buy goods or services, it would have to say something like “This is a solicitation” on the front in a clear, easy-to-read way. If it is not labeled properly, the Postal Service could treat it as mail that should not be delivered.
- The required notice must be visible, readable, and stand out from the rest of the printing on the item.
- The Postal Service would set rules for how the notice must appear.
- If a solicitation is not marked correctly, it could be stopped from being delivered and handled the way the Postal Service directs.
- The rule would not apply to certain mail covered under another part of the law.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1580 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1580
To amend section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, to require
solicitations sent in the mail to be clearly identified as
solicitations, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 2025
Mr. Rogers of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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A BILL
To amend section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, to require
solicitations sent in the mail to be clearly identified as
solicitations, 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. NOTICE OF SOLICITATION MAIL.
Section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
``(p)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), matter otherwise
legally acceptable in the mails which constitutes a solicitation for
the order by the addressee of goods or services, or both, is
nonmailable matter, shall not be carried or delivered by mail, and
shall be disposed of as the Postal Service directs, unless such matter
bears on its face, in conspicuous and legible type in contrast by
typography, layout, or color with other printing on its face, in
accordance with regulations which the Postal Service shall prescribe--
``(A) the following notice: `This is a solicitation'; or
``(B) in lieu thereof, a notice to the same effect in words
which the Postal Service may prescribe.
``(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to matter described
in subsection (d).''.
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