Fair Shipping for Non-Contiguous Areas Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4700 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4700

To require fair shipping prices for non-contiguous areas of the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2023

   Mr. Case (for himself, Mr. Sablan, and Mr. Moylan) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require fair shipping prices for non-contiguous areas of the United 
                    States, 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 ``Fair Shipping for Non-Contiguous 
Areas Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON HIGHER SHIPPING FEES.

    No private shipping service may exceed the shipping charge for the 
same product to and from a location in the contiguous United States as 
charged to a consumer product or producer good to the non-contiguous 
area of the United States.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON EXCLUDING NON-CONTIGUOUS AREAS.

    No private shipping service may exclude--
            (1) a non-contiguous area of the United States from its 
        shipping polices; or
            (2) a non-contiguous area of the United States from 
        shipping to its location.

SEC. 4. EXEMPTIONS.

    (a) USPS Exempted.--The United States Postal Service shall be 
exempt from the requirements of this Act.
    (b) Other Exemptions.--Any consumer product or producer good valued 
at more than $10,000 shall be exempt from the requirements of this Act.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Non-contiguous area.--The term ``non-contiguous area'' 
        means any part of the United States not physically connected to 
        the contiguous United States, including Alaska and Hawaii and 
        any territory or possession of the United States.
            (2) Contiguous united states.--The term ``contiguous United 
        States'' shall refer to the 48 contiguous States and the 
        District of Columbia.
            (3) Private shipping services.--The term ``private shipping 
        services'' means shipping services carried out by private 
        companies whose primary business model is the transporting of 
        products for retailers.
            (4) Consumer products.--The term ``consumer products'' 
        means the finished commodities for end-user use that will go 
        directly to the consumer.
            (5) Producer goods.--The term ``producer goods'' means raw 
        materials used to produce other products.
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