[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8015

  To maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 
               health emergency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 11, 2020

  Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 
               health emergency, 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 ``Delivering for America Act''.

SEC. 2. PROMPT AND RELIABLE POSTAL SERVICES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--During the period beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act and ending on the last day of the COVID-19 public 
health emergency or January 1, 2021, whichever is later, the United 
States Postal Service may not implement or approve any change to the 
operations or the level of service provided by the Postal Service from 
those in effect on January 1, 2020, that would impede prompt, reliable, 
and efficient services, including any of the following actions:
            (1) Any change in the nature of postal services which will 
        generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially 
        nationwide basis.
            (2) Any revision of service standards.
            (3) Any closure or consolidation of any post office or 
        reduction of facility hours.
            (4) Any prohibition on payment of overtime pay to Postal 
        Service officers or employees.
            (5) Any change that would prevent the Postal Service from 
        meeting its service standards or cause a decline in 
        measurements of performance relative to those service 
        standards.
            (6) Any change that would have the effect of delaying mail, 
        allowing for the non-delivery of mail to a delivery route, or 
        increasing the volume of undelivered mail.
    (b) Definition of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.--In this Act, 
the term ``COVID-19 public health emergency'' means the public health 
emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on 
January 27, 2020, with respect to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
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