[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3454 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3454

  To amend the provisions of title 39, United States Code, to provide 
 that certain periodical publications shall not be bound publications 
       for mail classification purposes, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 1993

  Mr. Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the provisions of title 39, United States Code, to provide 
 that certain periodical publications shall not be bound publications 
       for mail classification purposes, 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. CERTAIN PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS EXCLUDED FROM CLASSIFICATION 
              AS BOUND PUBLICATIONS.

    Section 3626 of title 39, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the second subsection (k) as 
        subsection (l); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) In the administration of this section, a weekly periodical 
publication which is eligible to publish legal notices under the laws 
of any State, the pages of which were customarily secured by 2 staples 
before March 19, 1989, shall not be considered to be a bound 
publication for mail classification purposes solely because its pages 
continue to be secured by 2 staples after that date.''.

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