[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5134 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5134

 To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that care packages 
 mailed to a member of the Armed Forces by any family member shall be 
    carried at no cost to the family member, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2019

 Ms. Barragan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide that care packages 
 mailed to a member of the Armed Forces by any family member shall be 
    carried at no cost to the family member, 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 ``Military Care Package Program Act''.

SEC. 2. NO-COST MAILING OF CARE PACKAGES TO MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
              FORCES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 34 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 3401 the following new section:
``Sec. 3402. Mailing privileges of family members of members of the 
              Armed Forces of the United States
    ``(a) A military care package shall be carried at no cost to the 
sender if the package--
            ``(1) is mailed to an individual who is a member of the 
        Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation;
            ``(2) is mailed by a family member of such individual; and
            ``(3) is addressed to a postal facility located at an Armed 
        Forces installation.
    ``(b) The Department of Defense shall reimburse the Postal Service 
for carrying out this section consistent, to the greatest extent 
practicable, with the requirements of the second sentence of subsection 
(c) and subsection (e) of section 3401.
    ``(c) This section shall be administered under such conditions, and 
under such regulations, as the Postal Service and the Secretary of 
Defense jointly may prescribe.
    ``(d) In this section--
            ``(1) the term `contingency operation' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 101(a)(13) of title 10; and
            ``(2) the term `family member' means a parent, sibling, 
        spouse, or child of an individual who is a member of the Armed 
        Forces.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such chapter is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3401 the 
following new item:

``3402. Mailing privileges of family members of members of the Armed 
                            Forces of the United States.''.
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