[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4527 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4527

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            August 13, 2020

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Carper) 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 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) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) the term ``COVID-19 public health emergency'' means the 
        public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and 
        Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service 
        Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with respect to 
        COVID-19, including any renewal of that declaration; and
            (2) the term ``Postal Service'' means the United States 
        Postal Service.
    (b) Requirement.--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 Postal 
Service may not implement or approve any change to the operations of 
the Postal Service within the statutory discretion of the Postal 
Service, or to the level of service provided by the Postal Service, 
relative to the operations and level of service, respectively, in 
effect on January 1, 2020, that would impede prompt, reliable, and 
efficient services, including any of the following changes:
            (1) Any change in the nature of postal services that will 
        generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially 
        nationwide basis.
            (2) Any revision of service standards.
            (3) Any closure or consolidation, or reduction of operating 
        hours, of any post office.
            (4) Any prohibition on payment of overtime pay to officers 
        or employees of the Postal Service.
            (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.
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