S 302
101th Congress
Senate
Economics and Public Finance
Congressional budget
Federal budgets
Government trust funds
Off-budget expenditures
Postal service
Postal Service Budgetary Treatment Act of 1989
Introduced: January 31, 1989
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 31, 1989
Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee has thirty days of continuous session to report or be discharged.
Jan 31, 1989
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Postal Service Budgetary Treatment Act of 1989 - Declares that the receipts and disbursements of the Postal Service Fund: (1) shall not be included in the totals of the Federal budget or the congressional budget; (2) shall be exempt from Federal budget limitations on expenditures and net lending; and (3) shall not be counted for purposes of calculating the Federal deficit.
Makes the U.S. Postal Service an off-budget Federal entity.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee has thirty days of continuous session to report or be discharged.
Committees of jurisdiction
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