Miscellaneous Postal Service Amendments of 1989

Summary

Miscellaneous Postal Service Amendments of 1989 - Amends postal law to correct grammar, punctuation, spelling errors, paragraph numbering, and to update terminology. Repeals obsolete provisions establishing the Postal Service Advisory Council. Makes technical and conforming amendments with respect to appropriations, postal service fund, and postal rate provisions. Repeals provisions relating to diplomatic corps correspondence of the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain and star route certification. Adds provisions to: (1) provide that return receipts received in the courts shall be received as prima facie evidence of delivery; and (2) authorize the Postal Service to appoint uniformed guards with policing powers on Postal Service property. Authorizes the Postal Service and the State Department to test the feasibility of providing postal services through State Department personnel at overseas diplomatic missions and to establish branch post offices at overseas diplomatic missions at locations where postal services are not provided at armed forces installations. Amends the Charity Games Advertising Clarification Act of 1988 to revise provisions relating to false representations and lotteries to provide that the mailing of tickets or other materials concerning a State-conducted lottery to addresses within that State is not prohibited by that Act. Revises criminal code provisions concerning State-conducted lotteries to apply the definition of a lottery within such provisions to exceptions relating to certain advertisements and other information concerning a lottery conducted or authorized by a State. Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to provide that postal provisions concerning false representations and lotteries shall not apply to tribal gaming activities by Indians. Authorizes the Postal Service to grant administrative exceptions to a prohibition on mailing locksmithing devices.

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Timeline

1. 29 June 1989

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 29 June 1989

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 29 June 1989

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 12 July 1989

   Committee

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

   Source: Committee

5. 12 July 1989

   Reported

   Ordered to be Reported.

   Source: Committee

6. 13 July 1989

   Reported

   Reported by the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. H. Rept. 101-143.

   Source: Committee

7. 13 July 1989

   Reported

   Reported by the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. H. Rept. 101-143.

   Source: Committee

8. 13 July 1989

   Calendars

   Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 98.

   Source: Calendars

9. 17 July 1989

   Passed

   Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

   Source: Floor

10. 17 July 1989

    Passed

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.

    Source: Floor

11. 17 July 1989

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.

    Source: Floor

12. 17 July 1989

    Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.

    Source: Floor

13. 17 July 1989

    Calendars

    The chair announced that a second on the motion to suspend the rules is not required.

    Source: Calendars

14. 17 July 1989

    Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules.

    Source: Floor

15. 17 July 1989

    Floor

    Mr. Sawyer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

    Source: Floor

16. 19 July 1989

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

    Source: IntroReferral

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Sponsors

• Rep. Ford, William D. [D-MI-13] · D · Sponsor
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