[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4270 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4270

To amend title 39, United States Code, to suspend bonus authority with 
respect to the Postmaster General and certain other postal officials in 
any year in which a postal retail facility or mail processing facility 
                   is closed, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2012

   Ms. Hochul (for herself, Mr. Griffith of Virginia, and Mrs. Noem) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 39, United States Code, to suspend bonus authority with 
respect to the Postmaster General and certain other postal officials in 
any year in which a postal retail facility or mail processing facility 
                   is closed, 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 Executive Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON BONUS AUTHORITY.

    Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(7) Restriction on Bonus Authority.--
            ``(A) In general.--No bonus or other reward may, under 
        authority of section 3686 or any other provision of law, be 
        made to the Postmaster General or any other officer of the 
        Postal Service in a senior executive position in any year in 
        which any postal retail facility or mail processing facility is 
        closed.
            ``(B) Definitions.--For purposes of this paragraph--
                    ``(i) the term `postal retail facility' means a 
                post office, post office branch, post office classified 
                station, or other facility which is operated by the 
                Postal Service, and the primary function of which is to 
                provide retail postal services; and
                    ``(ii) the term `mail processing facility' means a 
                processing and distribution center, processing and 
                distribution facility, network distribution center, or 
                other facility which is operated by the Postal Service, 
                and the primary function of which is to sort and 
                process mail.''.

SEC. 3. CAP ON EXECUTIVE PAY.

    (a) In General.--Subsections (b) and (c) of section 3686 of title 
39, United States Code, are repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 3686(d) of such title is amended 
by striking ``period which would not have been allowable but for the 
provisions of subsection (b) or (c);'' and inserting ``period;''.
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