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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8015 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 

Received 

AN ACT 

To maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the 

COVID–19 health emergency, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Delivering for America 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PROMPT AND RELIABLE POSTAL SERVICES DURING 

5 COVID–19 PANDEMIC. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—During the period beginning on 

7 the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the last 

8 day of the COVID–19 public health emergency or January 

9 31, 2021, whichever is later, the United States Postal 

10 Service may not implement or approve any change to the 

11 operations or the level of service provided by the Postal 

12 Service from those in effect on January 1, 2020, that 

13 would reduce service performance or impede prompt, reli14 able, and efficient services, including any of the following 

15 actions: 

16 (1) Any change in the nature of postal services 

17 which will generally affect service on a nationwide or 

18 substantially nationwide basis. 

19 (2) Any revision of service standards. 

20 (3) Any closure or consolidation of any post of21 fice or postal facility, or any reduction of such office 

22 or facility hours. 

23 (4) Any prohibition or restriction on the use of 

24 overtime or overtime pay to Postal Service officers 

25 or employees. 


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1 (5) Any change that would prevent the Postal 

2 Service from meeting its service standards or cause 

3 a decline in measurements of performance relative to 

4 those service standards. 

5 (6) Any change that would have the effect of 

6 delaying deferring, or curtailing mail, allowing for 

7 the non-delivery of mail to a delivery route, or in8 creasing the volume of undelivered mail. 

9 (7) Treating election mail as any class of mail 

10 other than first-class mail, regardless of whether 

11 such treatment requires payment of overtime pay to 

12 officers or employees of the Postal Service. 

13 (8) Removing, decommissioning, or any other 

14 stoppage of mail sorting machines, other than for 

15 routine maintenance. 

16 (9) Removing or eliminating any mail collection 

17 box that is available to the public. 

18 (10) Enacting any rule, policy, or standard the 

19 purpose or effect of which would delay the delivery 

20 of mail to or from a government entity. 

21 (11) Instituting any hiring freeze. 

22 (b) REVERSAL OF POLICIES HINDERING DELIVERY

23 OF MAIL.—The United States Postal Service shall reverse 

24 any initiative or action that is causing delay in processing 

25 or delivery or non-delivery of the mail. 


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1 (c) ELECTION MAIL.— 

2 (1) POLICY ON POSTMARKS.—It shall be the 

3 policy of the United States Postal Service to post4 mark, which shall include any imprinted indicia from 

5 the Postal Service that indicates the date of receipt, 

6 all election mail processed by the Postal Service. 

7 (2) SAME-DAY PROCESSING.—The United 

8 States Postal Service shall ensure, to the maximum 

9 extent practical, that election mail is processed and 

10 cleared from any postal facility or post office on the 

11 same day it is received at such a facility or post of12 fice. 

13 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

14 (1) the term ‘‘COVID–19 public health emer15 gency’’ means the public health emergency declared 

16 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on 

17 January 27, 2020, with respect to the 2019 Novel 

18 Coronavirus; 

19 (2) the term ‘‘election mail’’ means mail con20 sisting of— 

21 (A) voter registration application forms, 

22 completed voter registration application forms, 

23 and voter registration cards or similar mate24 rials; 


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1 (B) absentee and other mail-in ballot appli2 cation forms, blank absentee and other mail-in 

3 ballots, and completed absentee and other mail4 in ballots; and 

5 (C) other materials relating to an election 

6 which are mailed by a State or local election of7 ficial to individuals who are registered to vote 

8 in the election; and 

9 (3) the term ‘‘government entity’’ means the 

10 Federal Government or any State (as that term is 

11 defined in section 311 of title 5, United States 

12 Code) or local government and any subdivision 

13 thereof. 

14 SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE POSTAL 

15 SERVICE. 

16 There is appropriated, out of any money in the Treas17 ury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 

18 September 30, 2020, for an additional payment to the 

19 Postal Service Fund (established under section 2003 of 

20 title 39, United States Code), $25,000,000,000, to remain 

21 available until expended. Of the amount appropriated in 

22 the previous sentence, $15,000,000 shall be transferred to 

23 ‘‘United States Postal Service—Office of Inspector Gen24 eral—Salaries and Expenses’’. 


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1 SEC. 4. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 

2 Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or oth3 erwise effect the terms and conditions of section 3406 of 

4 title 39, United States Code (relating to balloting mate5 rials under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee 

6 Voting Act). 

7 SEC. 5. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The amounts provided by this Act 

9 are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to 

10 section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 

11 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)). 

12 (b) DESIGNATION IN THE SENATE.—In the Senate, 

13 this Act is designated as an emergency requirement pursu14 ant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Con15 gress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 

16 year 2018. 

Passed the House of Representatives August 22, 

2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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