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Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021

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The bill reauthorizes the Multinational Species Conservation Funds semipostal stamp program and directs the United States Postal Service to keep selling the stamp until every printed copy is sold. It removes the previous six‑year limit and adds a requirement that the USPS notify the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Reform Committee when the stamps are fully sold. The measure applies to the USPS and ensures that any stamps destroyed before the law takes effect must be reprinted and sold.

Key Provisions

Removes the “at least 6 years” time limit for the stamp program.
Requires the USPS to sell every copy of the stamp it prints under the program.
Requires the USPS to notify the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform when all printed stamps have been sold.
Makes the changes retroactive to the day after the 2013 reauthorization act.
If any stamps are destroyed before the law takes effect, the USPS must reprint and sell the same number of stamps.

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.

December 13, 2022

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Introduced in Senate

March 2, 2021

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

March 2, 2021

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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

February 2, 2022

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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. With written report No. 117-255.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

December 13, 2022

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.

December 13, 2022

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Reported to SenateIssued December 13, 2022

Calendar No. 639

117th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 521

[Report No. 117–255]

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 2 (legislative day, March 1), 2021

Mr. Portman (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Markey, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Rosen, and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

December 13, 2022

Reported by Mr. Peters, without amendment

A BILL

To require the United States Postal Service to continue selling the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp until all remaining stamps are sold, and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021.

Reauthorization; requirement to sell all stamps

(a)

In general

Section 2(c) of the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 (39 U.S.C. 416 note; Public Law 111–241) is amended—

(1)

in paragraph (2)—

(A)

by striking of at least 6 years,; and

(B)

by inserting before the period at the end the following: and ending not earlier than the date on which the United States Postal Service provides notice to Congress under paragraph (5); and

(2)

by adding at the end the following:

(5)

Requirement to sell all stamps printed

(A)

In general

The United States Postal Service shall sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp that the United States Postal Service prints under this Act.

(B)

Notification of Congress

The United States Postal Service shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives when all copies of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp printed under this Act have been sold.

(b)

Retroactive applicability

(1)

In general

The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on the day after the date of enactment of the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–165; 128 Stat. 1878).

(2)

Consequence of destruction of stamps

If the United States Postal Service destroys 1 or more Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamps before the date of enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service shall print and sell the same number of such stamps on or after that date of enactment.

December 13, 2022

Reported without amendment