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To require that the United States Postal Service issue a special commemorative postage stamp under section 416 of title 39, United States Code, in order to provide funding to the United States Postal Service for mail security enhancements, and for other purposes.

October 31, 2001

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform

To require that the United States Postal Service issue a special commemorative postage stamp under section 416 of title 39, United States Code, in order to provide funding to the United States Postal Service for mail security enhancements, 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 `Postal Heroes Commemoration Act of 2001'.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT A SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP BE DESIGNED AND ISSUED.

(a) GENERAL- In order to afford the public a direct and tangible way to provide assistance to the United States Postal Service to rapidly purchase and deploy decontamination equipment needed to prevent the transmission of dangerous biological agents through the mail system, the United States Postal Service shall issue a semipostal in accordance with subsection (b).

(b) REQUIREMENTS- The provisions of section 416 of title 39, United States Code, shall apply (as practicable) with respect to the semipostal described in subsection (a), subject to the following:

(1) PRICE- The price of the semipostal shall be equal to the price of a regular first-class postage stamp plus an additional 11 cents.

(2) DISPOSITION OF AMOUNTS BECOMING AVAILABLE- All amounts becoming available from the sale of the semipostal (as determined under such section) shall be transferred to the Postal Service for the sole purposes of upgrading and improving the Postal Service's capability to decontaminate mail, and to prevent the transmission of dangerous biological agents through the mail system.

(3) COMMENCEMENT AND TERMINATION DATES- Stamps under this section shall be issued--

(A) beginning on the earliest date practicable; and

(B) subject to section 416(g) of such title, for such period of time as the Postal Service considers necessary and appropriate, but in no event less than 2 years.

(4) NUMERICAL LIMITATION- Stamps under this section shall not be taken into account for purposes of any limitation under section 416(e)(1)(C) of such title relating to whether more than 1 semipostal may be offered for sale at the same time.

(c) DESIGN- It is the sense of the Congress that the semipostal issued under this section should depict, by such design as the Postal Service considers to be most appropriate, honoring the sacrifices of Postal Service workers who have lost their lives in the anthrax attacks of 2001.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

For purposes of this Act--

(1) the term `dangerous biological agents' means a biological agent or toxin that--

(A) is on the list that is in effect pursuant to section 511(d)(1) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; and

(B) has not been exempted from the applicability of regulations under section 511(e) of such Act;

(2) the term `semipostal' has the meaning given such term by section 416 of title 39, United States Code.

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