II 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Delivering for America 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROMPT AND RELIABLE POSTAL SERVICES DURING 
COVID–19 PANDEMIC. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—During the period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the last 
day of the COVID–19 public health emergency or January 
31, 2021, whichever is later, the United States Postal 
Service may not implement or approve any change to the 
operations or the level of service provided by the Postal 
Service from those in effect on January 1, 2020, that 
would reduce service performance or impede prompt, reli-
able, and efficient services, including any of the following 
actions: 
(1) Any change in the nature of postal services 
which will generally affect service on a nationwide or 
substantially nationwide basis. 
(2) Any revision of service standards. 
(3) Any closure or consolidation of any post of-
fice or postal facility, or any reduction of such office 
or facility hours. 
(4) Any prohibition or restriction on the use of 
overtime or overtime pay to Postal Service officers 
or employees. 
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(5) Any change that would prevent the Postal 
Service from meeting its service standards or cause 
a decline in measurements of performance relative to 
those service standards. 
(6) Any change that would have the effect of 
delaying deferring, or curtailing mail, allowing for 
the non-delivery of mail to a delivery route, or in-
creasing the volume of undelivered mail. 
(7) Treating election mail as any class of mail 
other than first-class mail, regardless of whether 
such treatment requires payment of overtime pay to 
officers or employees of the Postal Service. 
(8) Removing, decommissioning, or any other 
stoppage of mail sorting machines, other than for 
routine maintenance. 
(9) Removing or eliminating any mail collection 
box that is available to the public. 
(10) Enacting any rule, policy, or standard the 
purpose or effect of which would delay the delivery 
of mail to or from a government entity. 
(11) Instituting any hiring freeze. 
(b) REVERSAL OF POLICIES HINDERING DELIVERY 
OF MAIL.—The United States Postal Service shall reverse 
any initiative or action that is causing delay in processing 
or delivery or non-delivery of the mail. 
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(c) ELECTION MAIL.— 
(1) POLICY ON POSTMARKS.—It shall be the 
policy of the United States Postal Service to post-
mark, which shall include any imprinted indicia from 
the Postal Service that indicates the date of receipt, 
all election mail processed by the Postal Service. 
(2) 
SAME-DAY
PROCESSING.—The 
United 
States Postal Service shall ensure, to the maximum 
extent practical, that election mail is processed and 
cleared from any postal facility or post office on the 
same day it is received at such a facility or post of-
fice. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘COVID–19 public health emer-
gency’’ means the public health emergency declared 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on 
January 27, 2020, with respect to the 2019 Novel 
Coronavirus; 
(2) the term ‘‘election mail’’ means mail con-
sisting of— 
(A) voter registration application forms, 
completed voter registration application forms, 
and voter registration cards or similar mate-
rials; 
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(B) absentee and other mail-in ballot appli-
cation forms, blank absentee and other mail-in 
ballots, and completed absentee and other mail- 
in ballots; and 
(C) other materials relating to an election 
which are mailed by a State or local election of-
ficial to individuals who are registered to vote 
in the election; and 
(3) the term ‘‘government entity’’ means the 
Federal Government or any State (as that term is 
defined in section 311 of title 5, United States 
Code) or local government and any subdivision 
thereof. 
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE POSTAL 
SERVICE. 
There is appropriated, out of any money in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020, for an additional payment to the 
Postal Service Fund (established under section 2003 of 
title 39, United States Code), $25,000,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. Of the amount appropriated in 
the previous sentence, $15,000,000 shall be transferred to 
‘‘United States Postal Service—Office of Inspector Gen-
eral—Salaries and Expenses’’. 
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SEC. 4. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or oth-
erwise effect the terms and conditions of section 3406 of 
title 39, United States Code (relating to balloting mate-
rials under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee 
Voting Act). 
SEC. 5. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The amounts provided by this Act 
are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 
(2 U.S.C. 933(g)). 
(b) DESIGNATION IN THE SENATE.—In the Senate, 
this Act is designated as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Con-
gress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
year 2018. 
Passed the House of Representatives August 22, 
2020. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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