119-hr1310

[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

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 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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