39 U.S.C. § 3627
Adjusting free rates
United States · Title 39 — POSTAL SERVICE · Status: effective
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- 39 U.S.C. § 3627, Adjusting free rates, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/474061
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If Congress fails to appropriate an amount authorized under section 2401(c) of this title for any class of mail sent free of postage under section 3217 or 3403–3406 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by “of this title,”. the rate for that class may be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter so that the increased revenues received from the users of such class will equal the amount for that class that the Congress was to appropriate.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to improve the administration and operation of the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Voter Registration Act of 1993
- Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1994
- Postal Accountability and Enhancement ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally