[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3455 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3455

 To amend title 39, United States Code, to prevent mass mailings from 
          being sent as franked mail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 1993

 Mr. Portman introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
     to the Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 39, United States Code, to prevent mass mailings from 
          being sent as franked mail, 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. MASS MAILINGS NOT MAILABLE AS FRANKED MAIL.

    Paragraph (6)(A) of section 3210(a) of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(6)(A) It is the intent of Congress that a Member of, or Member-
elect to, Congress may not mail any mass mailing as franked mail.''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Title 39, United States Code.--Section 3210 of title 39, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (G) by striking ``, including 
                general mass mailings,''; and
                    (B) in subparagraphs (I) and (J) by striking ``or 
                other general mass mailing'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(6) by repealing subparagraphs (B), 
        (C), and (F), and the second sentence of subparagraph (D);
            (3) by repealing paragraph (7) of subsection (a); and
            (4) by repealing subsection (f).
    (b) Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990.--Section 316 of 
the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990 (39 U.S.C. 3210 note) 
is repealed.
    (c) Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991.--Subsection (f) of 
section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public 
Law 101-520; 104 Stat. 2280) is repealed.

SEC. 3. RETURN OF EXCESS AMOUNTS FROM OFFICIAL ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF 
              THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE TREASURY FOR DEFICIT 
              REDUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other law, or any rule or 
other authority, any amount remaining in an official allowance of a 
Member of the House of Representatives at the end of the session of 
Congress or other period for which the allowance is made available 
shall be returned to the Treasury, to be used for deficit reduction.
    (b) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            (1) the term ``Member of the House of Representatives'' 
        means a Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident 
        Commissioner to, the Congress; and
            (2) the term ``official allowance'' means, with respect to 
        a Member of the House of Representatives, the Official Mail 
        Allowance.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect at the beginning 
of, and shall apply with respect to sessions of Congress beginning 
with, the first session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress.

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