Title: Postal Preservation Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Postal Preservation Act
This bill provides additional funding to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.
Specifically, the bill appropriates $25 billion to the USPS for its Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone due to COVID-19 and $15 billion for its Office of Inspector General.
The bill requires the USPS, during the pandemic, to prioritize the purchase of, and make available to all USPS employees and facilities, personal protective equipment and to conduct additional cleaning and sanitizing of USPS facilities and delivery vehicles.
The Office of Inspector General shall (1) conduct oversight, audits, and investigations of projects and activities carried out with appropriated funds; and (2) initiate an audit of the use of such appropriations and report to Congress.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7015

  To provide financial stability to the United States Postal Service 
        during the coronavirus pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2020

Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York (for herself, Mr. King of New York, 
and Mr. Connolly) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee 
   on the Budget, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide financial stability to the United States Postal Service 
        during the coronavirus pandemic, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Postal Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS FOR POSTAL SERVICE IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS 
              PANDEMIC.

    (a) In General.--There is appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2020--
            (1) for an additional payment for ``United States Postal 
        Service--Payment to the Postal Service Fund'', $25,000,000,000, 
        to remain available until September 30, 2022, to the Postal 
        Service Fund for revenue forgone due to coronavirus; and
            (2) for an additional amount for ``United States Postal 
        Service--Office of Inspector General--Salaries and Expenses'', 
        $15,000,000, to remain available until expended, to prevent, 
        prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or 
        internationally.
    (b) Emergency Designation.--The amounts appropriated by subsection 
(a) are designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be available only 
if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and 
transmits such designations to the Congress.

SEC. 3. USPS SERVICES AND OVERSIGHT DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.

    (a) Prioritization of Services.--During the coronavirus pandemic, 
the United States Postal Service shall prioritize the purchase of, and 
make available to all Postal Service employees and facilities, personal 
protective equipment, including gloves, masks, and sanitizers, and 
shall conduct additional cleaning and sanitizing of Postal Service 
facilities and delivery vehicles.
    (b) Oversight.--The Inspector General of the United States Postal 
Service shall--
            (1) conduct oversight, audits, and investigations of 
        projects and activities carried out with funds provided in this 
        Act to the United States Postal Service; and
            (2) not less than 90 days after the Postal Service 
        commences use of funding provided by this Act, and annually 
        thereafter, initiate an audit of the Postal Service's use of 
        appropriations provided by this Act, including the use of funds 
        to cover lost revenues, costs due to COVID-19, and 
        expenditures, and submit a copy of such audit to the Committee 
        on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
        the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of 
        Representatives, and the Committees on Appropriations of the 
        House of Representatives and the Senate.
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