To amend title 39, United States Code, with respect to "cooperative mailings".

Amends Federal law to declare that, in the case of mail matter (cooperative mailings) sent (or proposed to be sent) by or on behalf of an organization authorized to mail at non-profit postage rates, which also has a contractual or any other business relationship with an entity not so authorized, non-profit postage rates shall apply if those rates would apply in the case of identical mail matter sent by an authorized organization without such a relationship with an unauthorized organization.

Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that nothing in this Act should be considered to alter the authority of the U.S. Postal Service to: (1) to apply regular postage rates, rather than non-profit rates, to specified other mail matter; or (2) enforce any criminal law within its jurisdiction.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5675 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5675

 To amend title 39, United States Code, with respect to ``cooperative 
                              mailings''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 15, 2000

 Mr. Ehrlich introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 39, United States Code, with respect to ``cooperative 
                              mailings''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COOPERATIVE MAILINGS.

    Section 3626(j) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(4)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any 
rule or regulation of the Postal Service, in the case of mail matter 
sent, or proposed to be sent, by (or on behalf of) an authorized 
organization having a contractual or any other business relationship 
with an entity described in subparagraph (B)(ii), rates of postage 
under former section 4452(b) or 4452(c) of this title shall apply if 
those rates would apply in the case of identical mail matter sent by 
such organization absent such relationship.
    ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph--
            ``(i) the term `authorized organization' means an 
        organization authorized to mail at the rates for mail under 
        former section 4452(b) or 4452(c) of this title; and
            ``(ii) an entity described in this clause is any 
        organization or other person (within the meaning of section 1 
        of title 1) that is not an authorized organization.''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to clarify section 
3626(j)(1)(D)(ii) of title 39, United States Code.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that 
nothing in this Act should be considered to alter the authority of the 
United States Postal Service--
            (1) to apply regular rates of postage, rather than 
        nonprofit rates, to mail matter described in subparagraph (A), 
        (B), (C), or (D)(i) of section 3626(j)(1) of title 39, United 
        States Code; or
            (2) to enforce any criminal law within its jurisdiction.
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