S 2395
109th Congress
Senate
Transportation and Public Works
Agriculture and Food
Air cargo
Animals
Bees
Government Operations and Politics
Postal service
Poultry
A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to require that air carriers accept as mail shipments certain live animals.
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 9, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1967)
Mar 9, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1967)
Mar 9, 2006
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs the U.S. Postal Service, in the exercise of its authority to contract with an air carrier for the transportation of mail by aircraft, to require an air carrier to accept as mail shipments of live animals that postal regulations allow to be transmitted as mail.
Requires an air carrier to accept and carry such cargo when the outside temperature is between 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit from the point of origin through the point of destination.
Applies the authority of the Postal Service under this Act to any air carrier that commonly and regularly carries live animals as cargo.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1967)
Committees of jurisdiction
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