Title: Semipostal Stamp Clarification Act of 2021
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Semipostal Stamp Clarification Act of 2021
This bill removes the authority of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to issue semipostal stamps (stamps sold at a premium to raise funds for causes of national public interest) except as provided by an act of Congress. (Currently, the USPS issues semipostals using its own discretion to determine the causes it considers to be in the national public interest.)
The bill also makes entities (currently, only agencies) eligible to receive amounts that become available from the sale of semipostals. Congress must determine the appropriate agencies or entities that receive such amounts.
The USPS must issue regulations addressing how administrative costs incurred relating to semipostals shall be computed, recovered, and kept to a minimum.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4512 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4512

  To amend section 416 of title 39, United States Code, to remove the 
  authority of the United States Postal Service to issue semipostals 
 except as provided for by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

 Mr. Burgess introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 416 of title 39, United States Code, to remove the 
  authority of the United States Postal Service to issue semipostals 
 except as provided for by an Act of Congress, 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 ``Semipostal Stamp Clarification Act 
of 2021''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE SEMIPOSTAL STAMP 
              AUTHORITY.

    Section 416 of title 39, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Limited Authority.--The Postal Service may issue and sell 
semipostals under this section only for such purposes or causes as 
provided for by an Act of Congress.'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``appropriate agency or 
                        agencies'' and inserting ``appropriate agency 
                        or entity, as provided for by an Act of 
                        Congress pursuant to subsection (b),''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``such agency'' and 
                        inserting ``such agency or entity'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2); and
                    (D) in paragraph (2), as redesignated by 
                subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, by amending 
                subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
                    ``(B) Administrative costs.--The Postal Service 
                shall issue regulations addressing how the costs 
                incurred by the Postal Service in carrying out this 
                section shall be computed, recovered, and kept to a 
                minimum.'';
            (3) by striking subsection (e); and
            (4) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
        (e) and (f), respectively.
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