[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3200 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3200

   To require that the United States Postal Service issue a special 
   commemorative postage stamp under section 416 of title 39, United 
 States Code, in order to provide funding to the United States Postal 
    Service for mail security enhancements, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 2001

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require that the United States Postal Service issue a special 
   commemorative postage stamp under section 416 of title 39, United 
 States Code, in order to provide funding to the United States Postal 
    Service for mail security enhancements, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Postal Heroes Commemoration Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT A SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP BE 
              DESIGNED AND ISSUED.

    (a) General.--In order to afford the public a direct and tangible 
way to provide assistance to the United States Postal Service to 
rapidly purchase and deploy decontamination equipment needed to prevent 
the transmission of dangerous biological agents through the mail 
system, the United States Postal Service shall issue a semipostal in 
accordance with subsection (b).
    (b) Requirements.--The provisions of section 416 of title 39, 
United States Code, shall apply (as practicable) with respect to the 
semipostal described in subsection (a), subject to the following:
            (1) Price.--The price of the semipostal shall be equal to 
        the price of a regular first-class postage stamp plus an 
        additional 11 cents.
            (2) Disposition of amounts becoming available.--All amounts 
        becoming available from the sale of the semipostal (as 
        determined under such section) shall be transferred to the 
        Postal Service for the sole purposes of upgrading and improving 
        the Postal Service's capability to decontaminate mail, and to 
        prevent the transmission of dangerous biological agents through 
        the mail system.
            (3) Commencement and termination dates.--Stamps under this 
        section shall be issued--
                    (A) beginning on the earliest date practicable; and
                    (B) subject to section 416(g) of such title, for 
                such period of time as the Postal Service considers 
                necessary and appropriate, but in no event less than 2 
                years.
            (4) Numerical limitation.--Stamps under this section shall 
        not be taken into account for purposes of any limitation under 
        section 416(e)(1)(C) of such title relating to whether more 
        than 1 semipostal may be offered for sale at the same time.
    (c) Design.--It is the sense of the Congress that the semipostal 
issued under this section should depict, by such design as the Postal 
Service considers to be most appropriate, honoring the sacrifices of 
Postal Service workers who have lost their lives in the anthrax attacks 
of 2001.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``dangerous biological agents'' means a 
        biological agent or toxin that--
                    (A) is on the list that is in effect pursuant to 
                section 511(d)(1) of the Antiterrorism and Effective 
                Death Penalty Act of 1996; and
                    (B) has not been exempted from the applicability of 
                regulations under section 511(e) of such Act;
            (2) the term ``semipostal'' has the meaning given such term 
        by section 416 of title 39, United States Code.
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