Bill Details
S.661 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-20
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would extend the rules that already apply when the Postal Service wants to close a post office to also cover other nearby postal facilities that help support post offices. That includes places used for accepting mail, processing mail, shipping, delivery, distribution, and similar operations that are owned or run by the Postal Service. In plain terms, the bill is meant to make sure the Postal Service cannot shut down important mail facilities without going through the same required steps it must follow for closing a post office.
- The Postal Service would have to treat certain support facilities the same way it treats post offices before closing them.
- The change would apply to facilities used for accepting, processing, shipping, delivering, or distributing mail, as long as they support one or more post offices.
- It updates federal postal law so the closure review and notice requirements cover more than just post office buildings.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 661 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 661
To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain
requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other
facility supporting a post office.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 20, 2025
Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Welch)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
_______________________________________________________________________
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.
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. POSTAL PROCESSING PROTECTION.
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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