[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3005 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3005

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

                             April 28, 2023

Mr. Garbarino (for himself, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Calvert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and 
   Accountability, 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 2023''.

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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