Title: USPS Fairness Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
USPS Fairness Act
This bill repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 695 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 695

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that 
the United States Postal Service prepay future retirement benefits, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2021

  Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New 
 York, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Allred, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. 
Raskin, Mr. Zeldin, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Sewell, 
Mr. Beyer, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. 
  Stanton, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Dean, Mr. 
    Moulton, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Titus, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. 
 Langevin, Ms. DeGette, Mrs. Axne, Ms. Meng, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Suozzi, 
 Mr. Lawson of Florida, Mr. Bost, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Neguse, 
  Ms. Brownley, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Peters, Mr. Perlmutter, Mr. Levin of 
 Michigan, Ms. Wexton, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Pingree, Miss Rice of New York, 
    Mr. Delgado, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Kind, Mr. Garcia of 
 Illinois, Mr. McKinley, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Ms. 
McCollum, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Michael F. 
  Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Sires, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. 
   Gallego, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Nadler, Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Speier, Mr. Cooper, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. Evans, Ms. 
 Garcia of Texas, Mr. Kim of New Jersey, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Ms. Lee 
 of California, Ms. Escobar, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mrs. 
Beatty, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Larsen of Washington, 
  Mr. Case, Mr. Deutch, Ms. Norton, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Norcross, Mr. 
 Tonko, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Wild, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Ryan, 
Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. 
   Vargas, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Courtney, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Pappas, Mr. 
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. McNerney, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
 Hastings, Ms. Adams, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mrs. Demings, Ms. Newman, Mr. 
   Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Upton, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Welch, Mr. Young, Ms. 
  Sherrill, Ms. Underwood, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Thompson of 
California, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Trone, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. 
 Higgins of New York, Mr. Katko, Mr. Payne, Mr. Takano, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. 
  Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Fortenberry, Mrs. Luria, Mr. 
 Jones, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Stauber, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Crow, Mr. Cohen, 
  Ms. Chu, Ms. Craig, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. 
  Horsford, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida, Ms. 
 Porter, Mr. Waltz, Ms. Kuster, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Kahele, 
     Mr. Pallone, Mr. Costa, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Blunt 
  Rochester, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mrs. McBath, Ms. Bass, Mr. Soto, Mr. 
  Carbajal, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Ms. Davids of 
  Kansas, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Lamb, Mr. Vela, Ms. Omar, Ms. Stevens, Ms. 
  Schrier, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Casten, Mr. 
  Turner, Ms. Ross, Mr. Carson, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. 
  Espaillat, Mr. Bera, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Malinowski, Mr. 
Quigley, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Foster, Mr. Emmer, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Valadao, 
 Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Neal, Mr. 
Lieu, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Morelle, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Meeks, Mr. 
 Cuellar, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Auchincloss, 
Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. Clarke of 
New York, Mr. Brown, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. McEachin, 
Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Himes, Ms. 
   Manning, Mr. Stivers, Ms. Jacobs of California, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. 
Aguilar, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Mr. Correa, Mr. Garbarino, and Mr. Keating) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that 
the United States Postal Service prepay future retirement benefits, 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 ``USPS Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF REQUIRED PREPAYMENT OF FUTURE POSTAL SERVICE 
              RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

    Subsection (d) of section 8909a of title 5, United States Code, is 
repealed.
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