Title: Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021
This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp and notify Congress when all copies have been sold.
If the USPS destroys one or more such stamps before this bill's enactment, it shall print and sell the same number of such stamps.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 521 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

<DOC>






117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 521

  To require the United States Postal Service to continue selling the 
  Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp until all 
           remaining stamps are sold, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                March 2 (legislative day, March 1), 2021

 Mr. Portman (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Markey, Ms. Duckworth, and 
Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To require the United States Postal Service to continue selling the 
  Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp until all 
           remaining stamps are sold, 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 ``Multinational Species Conservation 
Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION; REQUIREMENT TO SELL ALL STAMPS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2(c) of the Multinational Species 
Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 (39 U.S.C. 416 note; 
Public Law 111-241) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``of at least 6 years,''; and
                    (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``and ending not earlier than the date on 
                which the United States Postal Service provides notice 
                to Congress under paragraph (5)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Requirement to sell all stamps printed.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The United States Postal Service 
                shall sell each copy of the Multinational Species 
                Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp that the United 
                States Postal Service prints under this Act.
                    ``(B) Notification of congress.--The United States 
                Postal Service shall notify the Committee on Homeland 
                Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
                Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of 
                Representatives when all copies of the Multinational 
                Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp printed 
                under this Act have been sold.''.
    (b) Retroactive Applicability.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
        shall take effect as if enacted on the day after the date of 
        enactment of the Multinational Species Conservation Funds 
        Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-
        165; 128 Stat. 1878).
            (2) Consequence of destruction of stamps.--If the United 
        States Postal Service destroys 1 or more Multinational Species 
        Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamps before the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service shall 
        print and sell the same number of such stamps on or after that 
        date of enactment.
                                 <all>