[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 661 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 661

     To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain 
 requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other 
                   facility supporting a post office.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 20, 2025

    Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Welch) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the United States Postal Service to apply certain 
 requirements when closing a processing, shipping, delivery, or other 
                   facility supporting a post office.

    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 Processing Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. POSTAL PROCESSING PROTECTION.

    Section 404(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``any post office'' and 
        inserting ``any post office, or any acceptance, processing, 
        shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is 
        owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more 
        post offices'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``a post office'' and inserting ``a post 
                office, or an acceptance, processing, shipping, 
                delivery, distribution, or other facility that is owned 
                or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or 
                more post offices''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking ``post 
                offices'' and inserting ``post offices, or acceptance, 
                processing, shipping, delivery, distribution, or other 
                facilities that are owned or operated by the Postal 
                Service that support 1 or more post offices,'';
            (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ``a post office'' and 
        inserting ``a post office, or an acceptance, processing, 
        shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is 
        owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more 
        post offices,'';
            (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``a post office'' and 
        inserting ``a post office, or an acceptance, processing, 
        shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is 
        owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more 
        post offices,''; and
            (5) in paragraph (5), by striking ``any post office'' and 
        inserting ``any post office, or any acceptance, processing, 
        shipping, delivery, distribution, or other facility that is 
        owned or operated by the Postal Service that supports 1 or more 
        post offices,''.
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