Bill Text: AZ HCM2005 | 2020 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Postal service; urging independence; prefunding
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-6)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-25 - Senate read second time [HCM2005 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2020-HCM2005-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: postal service; urging independence; prefunding |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session 2020
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HCM 2005 |
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Introduced by Representatives Andrade: Biasiucci, Blanc, Butler, Campbell, Cano, Chávez, Cobb, DeGrazia, Dunn, Engel, Fernandez, Gabaldón, Jermaine, Lawrence, Peten, Powers Hannley, Rodriguez, Salman, Teller, Terán, Toma
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A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL
urging congress to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains independent and to reform retiree health benefit requirements.
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To the Congress of the United States of America:
Your memorialist respectfully represents:
Whereas, Congress has constitutional authority to establish post offices and post roads; and
Whereas, federal law states that the function of the United States Postal Service (USPS) is to "provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people," and that it must provide dependable, consistent and prompt services to all communities across the nation; and
Whereas, the USPS is a self-sustaining, independent establishment that does not receive taxpayer funding and relies solely on revenue derived from the sale of postal services and products; and
Whereas, the USPS and its more than 500,000 employees are at the center of the $1.4 trillion mailing industry, employing a total of 7.5 million Americans; and
Whereas, serving the needs of 157 million business and residential customers six days a week, the USPS maintains an affordable and universal network and connects the country's rural, suburban and urban communities; and
Whereas, the USPS is consistently the highest-rated agency of the federal government in nonpartisan opinion polls; and
Whereas, the USPS is the nation's second-largest employer of veterans; and
Whereas, postal employees are dedicated public servants who do more than process and deliver the nation's mail. They serve as the eyes and ears of the nation's communities and often are the first to respond in situations involving health, safety and crime in the communities they serve; and
Whereas, privatizing the USPS would jeopardize the booming e‑commerce sector, result in higher prices and reduced services, especially in rural areas, and cripple a major part of the nation's critical infrastructure.
Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring, prays:
1. That Congress take appropriate measures to ensure that the USPS remains an independent establishment of the federal government.
2. That Congress reform the burdensome requirement that the USPS prefund its retiree health benefits and enact legitimate, actuarial-based investment reforms for the USPS retiree health fund.
3. That Congress not privatize all or any part of the USPS.
4. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.
