[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1479 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1479

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 22 (legislative day, September 7), 1993

   Mr. Simon introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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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 thereof the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(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 two 
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 two staples after that date.''.

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