Delivering for America Act

Bill: 116-s-4527
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2020-08-13
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government studies and investigations

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Performance measurement

Postal service

U.S. Postal Service

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2020-08-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-08-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Delivering for America Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from making changes to operations or levels of service from those that were in effect on January 1, 2020. Specifically, the USPS may not, during the period beginning on enactment of this bill and ending on the last day of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency or January 1, 2021, whichever is later, implement or approve any change to the operations or the level of service that would impede prompt, reliable, and efficient services, including</p> <ul> <li>changes in the nature of services that will generally affect service on a nationwide basis;</li> <li>revisions of service standards;</li> <li>closures or consolidations of post offices or reduction of operating hours;</li> <li>prohibitions on payment of overtime pay to USPS officers or employees;</li> <li>changes that would prevent the USPS from meeting its service standards or that would reduce measurements of performance concerning those standards;</li> <li>changes that would have the effect of delaying mail, allowing non-delivery to a delivery route, or increasing the volume of undelivered mail.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4527 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 13, 2020 Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Carper ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID–19 health emergency, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Delivering for America Act . 2. Prompt and reliable postal services during COVID–19 pandemic (a) Definitions In this section: (1) the term COVID–19 public health emergency means the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) on January 31, 2020, with respect to COVID–19, including any renewal of that declaration; and (2) the term Postal Service means the United States Postal Service. (b) Requirement During the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the last day of the COVID–19 public health emergency or January 1, 2021, whichever is later, the Postal Service may not implement or approve any change to the operations of the Postal Service within the statutory discretion of the Postal Service, or to the level of service provided by the Postal Service, relative to the operations and level of service, respectively, in effect on January 1, 2020, that would impede prompt, reliable, and efficient services, including any of the following changes: (1) Any change in the nature of postal services that will generally affect service on a nationwide or substantially nationwide basis. (2) Any revision of service standards. (3) Any closure or consolidation, or reduction of operating hours, of any post office. (4) Any prohibition on payment of overtime pay to officers or employees of the Postal Service. (5) Any change that would prevent the Postal Service from meeting its service standards or cause a decline in measurements of performance relative to those service standards. (6) Any change that would have the effect of delaying mail, allowing for the non-delivery of mail to a delivery route, or increasing the volume of undelivered mail.