[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5919 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5919

  To grant the Postmaster General the authority to implement up to 12 
 non-mail delivery days each fiscal year for the United States Postal 
                                Service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2010

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To grant the Postmaster General the authority to implement up to 12 
 non-mail delivery days each fiscal year for the United States Postal 
                                Service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF DISCRETIONARY NON-MAIL DELIVERY DAYS.

    (a) In General.--Section 404 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f)(1) The Postmaster General may declare up to 12 non-mail 
delivery days in a fiscal year. Not later than 6 months before the 
beginning of such year, the Postmaster General shall submit to the 
Board of Governors a report listing the date on which each non-mail 
delivery day will occur, consistent with the requirements of this 
subsection.
    ``(2) A declaration under paragraph (1) shall not be effective 
unless it is made in compliance with the following:
            ``(A) A non-mail delivery day under this subsection shall 
        occur on a date that falls on a day that--
                    ``(i) is other than a Sunday; and
                    ``(ii) is not a legal public holiday listed in 
                section 6103(a) of title 5 or any other day declared to 
                be a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order.
    ``(3) Any day which is declared under this subsection to be a non-
mail delivery day shall--
            ``(A) for purposes of mail delivery and such other postal 
        operations as the Postal Service may by regulation prescribe, 
        be treated as if it were a Sunday; except that
            ``(B) an employee of the Postal Service, other than one who 
        is prevented from working on a non-mail delivery day by reason 
        of this subsection, shall be entitled to the same pay and 
        benefits for that day as if this subsection had not been 
        enacted.
    ``(4)(A) The 6-day mail delivery requirement shall not apply with 
respect to a week in which occurs a non-mail delivery day under this 
subsection.
    ``(B) The authority to declare a non-mail delivery day under this 
subsection shall be considered to be within the right of the Postal 
Service to determine the methods, means, and personnel by which postal 
operations are to be conducted.
    ``(5) The Postal Service may prescribe any regulations necessary to 
carry out this subsection.''.
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