Community Post Office Act

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3333 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3333

  To amend title 39, United States Code, to require the United States 
   Postal Service to receive approval from local governments before 
          relocating any post office, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 2019

    Mr. Collins of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 39, United States Code, to require the United States 
   Postal Service to receive approval from local governments before 
          relocating any post office, 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 ``Community Post Office Act''.

SEC. 2. SECTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 404 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) In addition to the requirements of subsection (d), before 
relocating any post office, the Postal Service--
            ``(1) shall provide a period of not less than 30 days for 
        comment from the governments of the town and county, or if 
        there are no such governments, the government of the State, in 
        which the post office is located;
            ``(2) provide to such governments a list, not to be made 
        available to the public, of each proposed relocation site; and
            ``(3) may not relocate such post office without receiving 
        prior written approval from such governments with respect to 
        such relocation and the site proposed for such relocation.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to any post office proposed for relocation on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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