[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1601 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1601

  To amend chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, to grant State 
governments the discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within 
                          their jurisdiction.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 28 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

Mr. Bradley (for himself and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, to grant State 
governments the discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within 
                          their jurisdiction.

    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 ``State Address Designation Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. STATE AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE ADDRESSES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
``Sec. 414. Authority of State governments to designate mailing 
              addresses
    ``(a) Notwithstanding section 404(a)(1), State governments shall 
have the discretion to designate mailing addresses for all sites within 
their jurisdiction.
    ``(b) Whenever a State government designates a mailing address 
under subsection (a), such government shall include as part of such 
mailing address--
            ``(1) the name of the municipality in which the site of 
        such address is geographically situated; and
            ``(2) the ZIP code number assigned to the site of such 
        address by the Postal Service.
    ``(c) Subject to subsection (d), a mailing address designated by a 
State government under subsection (a) shall become effective 30 days 
after the Postal Service receives written notice from such government 
of the designation of such address.
    ``(d) Notification under subsection (c) shall not become effective 
unless the postmaster for each post office responsible for delivering 
mail to any of the proposed addresses reviews and makes recommendations 
to ensure that duplicative street names and faulty numbering systems do 
not exist within the jurisdiction involved.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 413 the following:

``414. Authority of State governments to designate mailing 
                            addresses.''.

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