[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5587 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5587

To amend title 18, United States Code, to modify the role and duties of 
 United States Postal Service police officers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2021

 Mr. Garbarino (for himself and Mr. Pascrell) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to modify the role and duties of 
 United States Postal Service police officers, 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 ``Postal Police Reform Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. ROLE AND DUTIES OF USPS POLICE OFFICERS.

    Section 3061 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Postal Inspectors and 
        other agents of the United States Postal Service'' and 
        inserting ``Postal Inspectors, Postal Service police officers, 
        and other agents of the United States Postal Service''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c)(1) As to property owned or occupied by the Postal Service or 
under the charge and control of the Postal Service, the Postmaster 
General may prescribe regulations necessary for the protection and 
administration of property owned or occupied by the Postal Service and 
persons on the property. The regulations may include reasonable 
penalties, within the limits prescribed in paragraph (2), for 
violations of the regulations. The regulations shall be posted and 
remain posted in a conspicuous place on the property.
    ``(2) A person violating a regulation prescribed under this 
subsection shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more 
than 30 days, or both.''.
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