119-s569

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 569 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 569

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 February 13, 2025

 Ms. Lummis (for herself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Barrasso, and Mrs. Shaheen) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

 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) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Processing and distribution center.--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.

    (2) State.--The term ``State'' means a State or the 
 District of Columbia.

    (b) Limitation.--The United States Postal Service may not close, 
consolidate, downgrade, or take any other similar action with respect 
to a processing and distribution center in a State if such action would 
result in there being no processing and distribution center located in 
that State.
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