S 1868
102th Congress
Senate
Government Operations and Politics
Administrative procedure
Postal service
A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to revise the procedures under which any change in the nature of postal services, which will generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis, may be implemented.
Introduced: October 24, 1991
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Became law
Oct 24, 1991
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Oct 24, 1991
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends Federal law to revise the procedures that the Postal Service must follow when it determines that there should be a change in the nature of postal services which would generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis.
Requires the Postal Rate Commission to submit a copy of its opinion of such a proposal to the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service.
States that if the Commission concludes that such a proposal should be rejected, the Postal Service may not implement it except with the written concurrence of all of the Governors then holding office.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1