[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6301 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6301

   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
    States Postal Service shall maintain the number of officers and 
employees necessary to meet its homeland security and natural disaster 
          assistance responsibilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2012

Ms. Brown of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
          to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that the United 
    States Postal Service shall maintain the number of officers and 
employees necessary to meet its homeland security and natural disaster 
          assistance responsibilities, 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. POSTAL SERVICE HOMELAND SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES.

    Section 101 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h) As an employer, the Postal Service shall maintain a workforce 
of officers and employees necessary to meet its responsibilities with 
respect to homeland security, including the rapid residential delivery 
of medical countermeasures in the event of a biohazard attack against 
the United States, and natural disaster assistance.''.
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