Bill Text: CA SJR15 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Postal Service Protection Act of 2013.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 122, Statutes of 2013. [SJR15 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SJR15-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SJR 15	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  122
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Skinner)
   (Coauthors: Senators Beall, Block, Calderon, DeSaulnier, Galgiani,
Hernandez, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Monning, Pavley, Wolk, and Wright)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Fong, Fox, Gonzalez, Hall,
Medina, V. Manuel Pérez, and Wieckowski)

                        AUGUST 12, 2013

   Relative to the Postal Service Protection Act of 2013.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 15, Hancock. Postal Service Protection Act of 2013.
   This measure would urge the United States Congress to pass
legislation that reflects the value and intent set forth in the
Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced, in order to
ensure the modernization and preservation of the United States Postal
Service.



   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013 is intended to
sustain the United States Postal Service and avert unnecessary
closures that hurt communities; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Postal Service's financial issues are
due to unnecessary requirements and regulations imposed on it. The
Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced, is intended to
remove burdensome regulations, so the United States Postal Service
can manage its budget more effectively and be more competitive with
other delivery service providers; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to prohibit cuts to Saturday delivery, thus reducing the
need for customers to seek other delivery options; and
   WHEREAS, Cuts to Saturday delivery would disproportionately impact
rural communities, small businesses, and senior citizens; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to allow the United States Postal Service to look for
innovative new ways to generate revenue by allowing them to provide
additional services, including notarizing documents, issuing hunting
and fishing licenses, and allowing shipments of wine and beer; and
   WHEREAS, California produces 90 percent of all wine in the United
States and beer producers had a 34 billion dollar economic impact on
the state in 2012, and the Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as
introduced, and the United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act,
as introduced, are intended to support economic growth of an
important California industry; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to establish a commission of successful business
innovators and representatives to explore other ways the United
States Postal Service could generate new revenue and thrive in the
21st century; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to reinstate overnight delivery standards to speed mail
delivery and prevent shutdowns of mail sorting centers; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to provide additional oversight and transparency to the
United States Postal Service's plan to close, relocate, or sell 3,270
post offices, including historic buildings in the Cities of
Berkeley, Burlingame, Fullerton, Glendale, Huntington Beach, La
Jolla, Palo Alto, Redlands, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, South Gate,
Ukiah, and Venice; and
   WHEREAS, Historic post offices slated for closure, relocation, or
sale are currently listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, have historic preservation covenants, or have memoranda of
understanding with local and state historic preservation
organizations; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
is intended to protect rural and historic post offices by putting in
place a fair and open process before the United States Postal
Service could sell or consolidate invaluable property assets; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
repeals the mandate, not required of any other public or private
entity in the United States, to prefund future retiree health
benefits; and
   WHEREAS, The Postal Service Protection Act of 2013, as introduced,
represents a critical step on the behalf of over 40,000 California
active and retired letter carriers, 24 percent of whom are veterans
of the United States Armed Forces, the United States Postal Service
being the single largest employer of veterans in the nation outside
of the United States Department of Defense; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature urges the United States
Congress to pass legislation that reflects the values and intentions
outlined in this resolution and contained in the February 13, 2013,
introduced version of the Postal Service Protection Act of 2013,
Senate Bill 316, sponsored by Senator Bernard Sanders, and House Bill
630, sponsored by Representative Peter DeFazio, and the April 24,
2013, version of House Resolution 1718, sponsored by Representative
Jackie Speier, that would ensure the modernization and preservation
of the United States Postal Service; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Majority
Leader of the Senate, to each Senator and Representative from
California in the Congress of the United States, to the United States
Postmaster General, and to the author for appropriate distribution.