About the bill
Only one federal agency is required to pre-fund their employees’ future retirement healthcare benefits, which costs taxpayers billions more upfront than at any other agency.
Context
At its current rate of financial loss, the U.S. Postal Service is slated to run out of money in 2024. The Trump Administration’s budget proposal warned that — absent any changes — the USPS might soon need a taxpayer funded bailout.
Why? There are several hundred federal agencies, but only one is mandated to pre-fund its employees future healthcare benefits: the Postal Service.
This wasn’t always the case. The mandate only began starting with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. It passed both the Senate and House by voice votes, procedures used for noncontroversial votes in which no record of individual ...
Sponsor and status
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Passed House (Senate next) on Feb 5, 2020
This bill passed in the House on February 5, 2020 and goes to the Senate next for consideration.
Position statements
What legislators are saying
“DeFazio-Authored Bill to Help US Postal Service Maintain Sustainability Passes House of Representatives”
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Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR4]
(Sponsor)
on Feb 5, 2020
“Rep. Lynch speaks on the House floor in support of H.R. 2382, the USPS Fairness Act”
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Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA8]
(Co-sponsor)
on Feb 5, 2020
“Washington Watch - 11/4/19”
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Rep. Rob Woodall [R-GA7]
on Nov 4, 2019
More statements at ProPublica Represent...
What stakeholders are saying
History
H.R. 2382 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 2382. This is the one from the 116th Congress.
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