[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1457 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1457

   To provide for the protection of mail delivery on certain postal 
                    routes, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2007

Mr. Harkin (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Bingaman, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. 
Leahy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
     to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the protection of mail delivery on certain postal 
                    routes, 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. MAIL DELIVERY PROTECTION.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Mail Delivery 
Protection Act of 2007''.
    (b) Mail Delivery Protection.--Section 5212 of title 39, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Postal Service may''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b)(1) Except as provided under paragraph (2), the Postal Service 
may not enter into any contract under this section with any motor 
carrier or other person for the delivery of mail on any route with 1 or 
more families per mile.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)--
            ``(A) any contract described under that paragraph in effect 
        on the date of enactment of the Mail Delivery Protection Act of 
        2007--
                    ``(i) shall remain in effect until terminated under 
                the terms of such contract or as otherwise provided by 
                law; and
                    ``(ii) may be renewed 1 or more times; and
            ``(B) service on a rural route may be converted to contract 
        delivery service when such route no longer serves a minimum of 
        1 family per mile.''.
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