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Calendar No. 266 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3076 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 8 (legislative day, FEBRUARY 3), 2022 
Received; read the first time 
FEBRUARY 9, 2022 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To provide stability to and enhance the services of the United 
States Postal Service, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Postal Service Reform Act of 2022’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—POSTAL SERVICE FINANCIAL REFORMS 
Sec. 101. Postal Service Health Benefits Program. 
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Sec. 102. USPS Fairness Act. 
Sec. 103. Nonpostal services. 
TITLE II—POSTAL SERVICE OPERATIONAL REFORMS 
Sec. 201. Performance targets and transparency. 
Sec. 202. Integrated delivery network. 
Sec. 203. Review of Postal Service cost attribution guidelines. 
Sec. 204. Rural newspaper sustainability. 
Sec. 205. Funding of Postal Regulatory Commission. 
Sec. 206. Flats operations study and reform. 
Sec. 207. Reporting requirements. 
Sec. 208. Postal Service transportation selection policy revisions. 
Sec. 209. USPS Inspector General oversight of Postal Regulatory Commission. 
TITLE III—SEVERABILITY 
Sec. 301. Severability. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) COMMISSION.—In this Act, the term ‘‘Commis-
sion’’ means the Postal Regulatory Commission. 
(b) TERMS DEFINED IN TITLE 39, UNITED STATES 
CODE.—In this Act, the terms ‘‘competitive product’’, 
‘‘market-dominant product’’, and ‘‘Postal Service’’ have 
the meanings given those terms in section 102 of title 39, 
United States Code. 
TITLE I—POSTAL SERVICE 
FINANCIAL REFORMS 
SEC. 101. POSTAL SERVICE HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 89 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
8903b the following: 
‘‘§ 8903c. Postal Service Health Benefits Program 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
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‘‘(1) the term ‘covered Medicare individual’ 
means an individual who is entitled to benefits under 
Medicare part A, but excluding an individual who is 
eligible to enroll under such part under section 1818 
or 1818A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395i–2, 1395i–2a); 
‘‘(2) the term ‘initial contract year’ means the 
contract year beginning in January of 2025; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘initial participating carrier’ 
means a carrier that enters into a contract with the 
Office to participate in the Program during the ini-
tial contract year; 
‘‘(4) the term ‘Medicare part A’ means part A 
of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395c et seq.); 
‘‘(5) the term ‘Medicare part B’ means part B 
of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395j et seq.); 
‘‘(6) the term ‘Office’ means the Office of Per-
sonnel Management; 
‘‘(7) the term ‘Postal Service’ means the United 
States Postal Service; 
‘‘(8) the term ‘Postal Service annuitant’ means 
an annuitant enrolled in a health benefits plan under 
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this chapter whose Government contribution is re-
quired to be paid under section 8906(g)(2); 
‘‘(9) the term ‘Postal Service employee’ means 
an employee of the Postal Service enrolled in a 
health benefits plan under this chapter whose Gov-
ernment contribution is paid by the Postal Service; 
‘‘(10) the term ‘Postal Service Medicare covered 
annuitant’ means an individual who— 
‘‘(A) is a Postal Service annuitant; and 
‘‘(B) is a covered Medicare individual; 
‘‘(11) the term ‘Program’ means the Postal 
Service Health Benefits Program established under 
subsection (c) within the Federal Employees Health 
Benefits Program; 
‘‘(12) the term ‘Program plan’ means a health 
benefits plan offered under the Program; and 
‘‘(13) the definitions set forth in section 8901 
shall apply, and for the purposes of applying such 
definitions in carrying out this section, a Postal 
Service employee and Postal Service annuitant shall 
be treated in the same manner as an employee and 
an annuitant (as those terms are defined in para-
graphs (1) and (3), respectively, of section 8901), 
consistent with the requirements of this section. 
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