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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2807 
To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide for increased oversight 
over significant proposed changes to postal services, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2025 
Mr. CLYDE (for himself, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mr. AUS-
TIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. LOUDERMILK, and Mr. JACK) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 
Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 39, United States Code, to provide for in-
creased oversight over significant proposed changes to 
postal services, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Postal Service Trans-
parency and Review Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. OVERSIGHT OF PROPOSED SIGNIFICANT CHANGES 
TO POSTAL SERVICES. 
Section 3661 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(b)(1) Prior to implementing any change in the na-
ture of postal services which will generally affect service 
on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis, or 
which will significantly affect service within a postal dis-
trict, not later than the date that is 180 days before the 
proposed effective date of such change the Postal Service 
shall submit a proposal for such change to the Postal Reg-
ulatory Commission requesting an advisory opinion on the 
change. 
‘‘(2)(A) Not later than 180 days after the date the 
Commission receives such a proposal from the Postal Serv-
ice under paragraph (1), the Commission shall issue an 
advisory opinion on the proposal. 
‘‘(B) The Postal Service may not take any action, or 
obligate or expend any funds, to implement, administer, 
or otherwise carry out the applicable proposed change at 
anytime before the date the Commission issues an advisory 
opinion under this paragraph, consistent with paragraph 
(3). 
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‘‘(3)(A) The Commission may issue a ruling to sus-
pend implementation of any such change if the Commis-
sion determines that the Postal Service failed to seek an 
advisory opinion required under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) On and after the date of such ruling, no funds 
may be obligated or expended by the Postal Service to im-
plement, administer, or otherwise carry out such change 
until the Postal Service seeks an advisory opinion under 
such paragraph, and mail service levels shall be returned 
to and maintained at the service level in effect prior to 
the applicable change in the nature of postal service that 
occurred.’’; and 
(2) by adding after subsection (c) the following: 
‘‘(d) Chapter 8 of title 5 shall apply to proposals sub-
mitted by the Postal Service under subsection (b)(1) to 
the Postal Regulatory Commission, except that in applying 
such chapter to such a proposal— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘joint resolution’ means only a 
joint resolution introduced in the period beginning 
on the date the Commission issued an advisory opin-
ion under subsection (b)(1) with respect to such pro-
posal was so submitted and ending 60 legislative 
days thereafter, the matter after the resolving clause 
of which is as follows: ‘That Congress disapproves 
the proposal submitted by the United States Postal 
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Service relating to llll, and such change shall 
have no force or effect.’ (The blank space being ap-
propriately filled in); and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘submission or publication date’ 
means the date such opinion was so issued.’’. 
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