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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 597
To allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for AIDS research and
education through the voluntary purchase of certain specially issued
United States postage stamps.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 4, 1999
Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD (for herself, Mr. COBURN, Mr. LATOURETTE,
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. SERRANO,
Ms. KILPATRICK, Mrs. CLAYTON, Ms. PELOSI, Mrs. CHRISTIAN-
CHRISTENSEN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. FORD, Mrs. MINK of Hawaii, Mr.
LANTOS, Mr. STARK, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. FROST, Mrs.
JONES of Ohio, Mr. BALDACCI, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr.
GREEN of Texas, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. DIXON) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government
Reform
A BILL
To allow postal patrons to contribute to funding for AIDS
research and education through the voluntary purchase
of certain specially issued United States postage stamps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Faces of AIDS Stamp
Act of 1999’’.
‘‘(c)(1) Of the amounts becoming available for AIDS
research and education pursuant to this section, the
United States Postal Service shall pay—
‘‘(A) 50 percent to the National Institutes of
Health for AIDS research; and
‘‘(B) the remainder to the Department of
Health and Human Services for purposes of such
AIDS awareness education grant programs as the
Secretary of Health and Human Services considers
appropriate.
Payments under this section to an agency shall be made
under such arrangements as the Postal Service shall by
mutual agreement with that agency establish in order to
carry out the purposes of this section, except that, under
those arrangements, payments to such agency shall be
made at least twice a year.
‘‘(2) For purposes of this section, the term ‘amounts
becoming available for AIDS research and education pur-
suant to this section’ means—
‘‘(A) the total amounts received by the Postal
Service that it would not have received but for the
enactment of this section, reduced by
‘‘(B) an amount sufficient to cover reasonable
costs incurred by the Postal Service in carrying out
this section, including those attributable to the
printing, sale, and distribution of stamps under this
section,
as determined by the Postal Service under regulations that
it shall prescribe.
‘‘(d) It is the sense of the Congress that nothing in
this section should—
‘‘(1) directly or indirectly cause a net decrease
in total funds received by the National Institutes of
Health, the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices, or any other agency or instrumentality of the
Government (or any component or program thereof)
below the level that would otherwise have been re-
ceived but for the enactment of this section; or
‘‘(2) affect regular first-class rates of postage
or any other regular rates of postage.
‘‘(e) Special postage stamps under this section shall
be made available to the public beginning on such date
as the Postal Service shall by regulation prescribe, but in
no event later than 12 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this section.
‘‘(f) The Postmaster General shall include in each re-
port rendered under section 2402 with respect to any pe-
riod during any portion of which this section is in effect
information concerning the operation of this section, ex-
cept that, at a minimum, each shall include—
‘‘(1) the total amount described in subsection
(c)(2)(A) which was received by the Postal Service
during the period covered by such report; and
‘‘(2) of the amount under paragraph (1), how
much (in the aggregate and by category) was re-
quired for the purposes described in subsection
(c)(2)(B).
‘‘(g) This section shall cease to be effective at the
end of the 2-year period beginning on the date on which
special postage stamps under this section are first made
available to the public.
‘‘(h) For purposes of this section, the term ‘AIDS
research and education’ means research and public edu-
cation with respect to acquired immune deficiency syn-
drome.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) The analysis
for chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, is amended
by striking the item relating to section 414 and inserting
the following:
‘‘414. Special postage stamps for breast cancer research.
‘‘415. Special postage stamps for AIDS research and education.’’.
(2) The heading for section 414 of title 39, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 414. Special postage stamps for breast cancer re-
search.’’.
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