[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1580 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1580

   To amend section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, to require 
      solicitations sent in the mail to be clearly identified as 
                 solicitations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2025

Mr. Rogers of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred 
          to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, to require 
      solicitations sent in the mail to be clearly identified as 
                 solicitations, 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. NOTICE OF SOLICITATION MAIL.

    Section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(p)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), matter otherwise 
legally acceptable in the mails which constitutes a solicitation for 
the order by the addressee of goods or services, or both, is 
nonmailable matter, shall not be carried or delivered by mail, and 
shall be disposed of as the Postal Service directs, unless such matter 
bears on its face, in conspicuous and legible type in contrast by 
typography, layout, or color with other printing on its face, in 
accordance with regulations which the Postal Service shall prescribe--
            ``(A) the following notice: `This is a solicitation'; or
            ``(B) in lieu thereof, a notice to the same effect in words 
        which the Postal Service may prescribe.
    ``(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to matter described 
in subsection (d).''.
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