[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8045 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8045

   To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal 
  Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2024

Ms. Hageman (for herself and Mr. Pappas) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
   To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal 
  Service processing and distribution center in States, 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 Operations Stay Timely And 
Local Act'' or the ``POSTAL Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CLOSING OR CONSOLIDATING POSTAL SERVICE 
              PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN STATES.

    (a) In General.--The United States Postal Service may not close, 
consolidate, downgrade, or take any other similar action with respect 
to any processing and distribution center in a State if such action 
would result in no such center being located in that State or 
negatively impact mail delivery.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``processing and distribution center'' means a 
        central mail facility that--
                    (A) distributes and dispatches part or all of both 
                incoming mail and outgoing mail for a designated 
                service area;
                    (B) provides instructions on the preparation of 
                collection mail, dispatch schedules, and sorting plan 
                requirements to mailers; and
                    (C) is a sectional center facility, a general mail 
                facility, or a dedicated mail processing facility 
                without a station or branch; and
            (2) the term ``State'' means the 50 States and the District 
        of Columbia.
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