[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 349 Introduced in House (IH)]







                                    


104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 349

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

  Mr. Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that certain 
   periodical publications shall not be bound publications for mail 
                        classification 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 by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(n) 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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