Affordable Shipping for All Act

Bill: 119-hr-380
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-14
Policy area: Commerce
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Affordable Shipping for All Act</strong></p><p>This bill limits shipping services from excluding service or charging higher prices to noncontiguous areas of the United States.</p><p>Specifically, private shipping services (e.g., FedEx) and the U.S. Postal Service are prohibited from charging a higher rate to ship a consumer&nbsp;product or producer good (e.g., raw material)&nbsp;to a noncontiguous area of the United States than they charge to ship the same product&nbsp;to and from a location within the contiguous United States. Under the bill, a noncontiguous area includes Alaska and Hawaii and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States (including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands).</p><p>Additionally, such shipping services may not exclude services to such a noncontiguous location.</p><p>Consumer products or producer goods valued at more than $10,000 are exempt from the requirements of this bill.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 380 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 14, 2025 Mr. Case (for himself, Mr. Moylan , Mr. Hernández , Mrs. Radewagen , and Mrs. King-Hinds ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , 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 A BILL To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United States, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Affordable Shipping for All Act . 2. Prohibition on higher shipping fees No shipping service may exceed the shipping charge for the same product to and from a location in the contiguous United States as charged to a consumer product or producer good to the noncontiguous area of the United States. 3. Prohibition on excluding noncontiguous areas No shipping service may exclude— (1) a noncontiguous area of the United States from its shipping polices; or (2) a noncontiguous area of the United States from shipping to its location. 4. Exemptions Any consumer product or producer good valued at more than $10,000 shall be exempt from the requirements of this Act. 5. Definitions In this Act: (1) Consumer products The term consumer products means the finished commodities for end-user use that will go directly to the consumer. (2) Contiguous United States The term contiguous United States shall refer to the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia. (3) Noncontiguous area The term noncontiguous area means any part of the United States not physically connected to the contiguous United States, including Alaska and Hawaii and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. (4) Producer goods The term producer goods means raw materials used to produce other products. (5) Shipping services The term shipping service — (A) means private companies whose primary business model is the transporting of products for retailers; and (B) includes the United States Postal Service.