S 177 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Postmasters Fairness and Rights Act

Introduced Jan 25, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Daniel K. Akaka D-HI

Latest action · Mar 20, 2001 Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 25, 2001
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Postmasters Fairness and Rights Act - Amends Federal law to prescribe guidelines within which the Postal Service shall propose changes in pay policies, schedules, and fringe benefit programs affecting postmasters which are to be in effect during the period covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the Postal Service and certain recognized bargaining representatives.

Grants certain qualified postmasters' organizations the right to participate in program planning and development pertaining to pay policies, schedules, and fringe benefits.

Cosponsors 49

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 25, 2001 to Mar 14, 2002; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-HI	Daniel K. Inouye	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-WI	Herb Kohl	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-RI	Jack Reed	Original	Jan 25, 2001
R-VT	James M. Jeffords	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-WV	John D. Rockefeller IV	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-NC	John Edwards	Original	Jan 25, 2001
I-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-MT	Max Baucus	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-GA	Max Cleland	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-MD	Paul S. Sarbanes	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-SD	Thomas A. Daschle	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-SD	Tim Johnson	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-IA	Tom Harkin	Original	Jan 25, 2001
D-ND	Byron L. Dorgan		Jan 29, 2001
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow		Jan 29, 2001
D-NJ	Robert G. Torricelli		Jan 29, 2001
D-GA	Zell Miller		Feb 1, 2001
D-MA	John F. Kerry		Feb 27, 2001
D-MN	Mark Dayton		Feb 27, 2001
R-ID	Larry E. Craig		Feb 28, 2001
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold		Feb 28, 2001
R-IA	Chuck Grassley		Mar 5, 2001
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu		Mar 6, 2001
D-CT	Christopher J. Dodd		Mar 8, 2001
R-RI	Lincoln Chafee		Mar 22, 2001
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Mar 26, 2001
R-ME	Susan M. Collins		Mar 26, 2001
D-ND	Kent Conrad		Mar 27, 2001
D-NE	Ben Nelson		Mar 29, 2001
R-AR	Tim Hutchinson		Apr 2, 2001
R-NE	Chuck Hagel		Apr 5, 2001
D-MO	Jean Carnahan		Apr 23, 2001
D-PA	Arlen Specter		Apr 24, 2001
D-NV	Harry Reid		Apr 30, 2001
R-ID	Mike Crapo		May 10, 2001
D-MN	Paul D. Wellstone		Jun 13, 2001
R-ME	Olympia J. Snowe		Jul 17, 2001
D-NJ	Jon S. Corzine		Aug 2, 2001
R-MT	Conrad R. Burns		Sep 4, 2001
D-WA	Patty Murray		Sep 4, 2001
R-NH	Judd Gregg		Feb 26, 2002
D-SC	Ernest F. Hollings		Mar 4, 2002
R-NH	Bob Smith		Mar 14, 2002

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee	Referred Jan 25, 2001
	International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee	Referred Mar 20, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 20, 2001Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services.
Jan 25, 2001Introduced in Senate
Jan 25, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 250	Postmasters Fairness and Rights Act of 2001	Companion bill	Jan 30, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to amend the provisions of title 39, United States Code, relating to the manner in which pay policies and schedules and fringe benefit programs for postmasters are established.
Short Titles as Introduced: Postmasters Fairness and Rights Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 25, 2001Introduced in Senate

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