United States Postal Service Stabilization Act of 2013
Latest action · Mar 5, 2013 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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.
- IntroducedMar 5, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
United States Postal Service Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends provisions concerning the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), with respect to employees of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), to: (1) provide a new formula for calculating employee pension contributions using the normal-cost percentage method multiplied by the aggregate amount of basic pay payable to employees of USPS and the Postal Regulatory Commission, and (2) provide for the use of excess FERS contributions to pay USPS debt obligations and make pension contributions.
Cosponsors 169
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2013 to Jul 11, 2014.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Mar 7, 2013 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Mar 7, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Mar 11, 2013 | |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Mar 11, 2013 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Mar 11, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Mar 12, 2013 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Mar 13, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Mar 14, 2013 | |
| D-MI | John D. Dingell | Mar 15, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Marc A. Veasey | Mar 15, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Mar 15, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Mar 15, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | Mar 15, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Mar 18, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Mar 18, 2013 | |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Michael G. Grimm | Mar 19, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Mar 20, 2013 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Mar 20, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 21, 2013 | |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Mar 21, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Steve Israel | Mar 21, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Mar 25, 2013 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| R-NJ | Jon Runyan | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Lois Frankel | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-IN | Peter J. Visclosky | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Richard L. Hanna | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Janice Hahn | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-IL | William L. Enyart | Apr 10, 2013 | |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Apr 11, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Apr 11, 2013 | |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | Apr 11, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Apr 11, 2013 | |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Apr 12, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Apr 12, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Apr 15, 2013 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Apr 15, 2013 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Apr 16, 2013 | |
| R-PA | Michael G. Fitzpatrick | Apr 16, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Apr 17, 2013 | |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Apr 17, 2013 | |
| D-MD | Donna F. Edwards | Apr 19, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Gary C. Peters | Apr 19, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Hakeem S. Jeffries | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Timothy J. Walz | Apr 23, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| R-NY | Peter T. King | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Apr 24, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Apr 25, 2013 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Apr 30, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Apr 30, 2013 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Apr 30, 2013 | |
| I-AZ | Kyrsten Sinema | Apr 30, 2013 | |
| D-IA | Bruce L. Braley | May 3, 2013 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | May 3, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | May 3, 2013 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | May 6, 2013 | |
| D-NY | William L. Owens | May 6, 2013 | |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | May 7, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | May 13, 2013 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 13, 2013 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | May 14, 2013 | |
| D-PR | Pedro R. Pierluisi | May 14, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | May 15, 2013 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | May 15, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | May 20, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | May 20, 2013 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | May 21, 2013 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | May 21, 2013 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | May 21, 2013 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | May 21, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Alan Grayson | May 22, 2013 | |
| R-WV | David B. McKinley | May 22, 2013 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | May 22, 2013 | |
| R-PA | Jim Gerlach | May 22, 2013 | |
| D-OR | Kurt Schrader | May 22, 2013 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | May 22, 2013 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | May 23, 2013 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | May 23, 2013 | |
| D-WV | Nick J. Rahall II | Jun 3, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Jun 4, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Jun 6, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Jun 6, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Jun 10, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Jun 10, 2013 | |
| D-NH | Carol Shea-Porter | Jun 11, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Jun 12, 2013 | |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Jun 13, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Jun 14, 2013 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Jun 18, 2013 | |
| D-MD | John K. Delaney | Jun 20, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Daniel B. Maffei | Jun 24, 2013 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Jun 24, 2013 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Jun 25, 2013 | |
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Jun 26, 2013 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Jul 15, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Patrick Murphy | Jul 25, 2013 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Jul 30, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Jul 30, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Jul 30, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Jul 30, 2013 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Jul 31, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Ami Bera | Aug 1, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Aug 2, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Sep 9, 2013 | |
| R-OH | Bill Johnson | Sep 9, 2013 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Sep 9, 2013 | |
| D-CT | Elizabeth H. Esty | Sep 11, 2013 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Sep 17, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | Sep 20, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Beto O'Rourke | Sep 27, 2013 | |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Sep 27, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Gloria Negrete McLeod | Sep 30, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Pete P. Gallego | Oct 3, 2013 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Oct 9, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Oct 9, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Oct 11, 2013 | |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Oct 29, 2013 | |
| D-CT | James A. Himes | Nov 12, 2013 | |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Nov 12, 2013 | |
| D-DE | John C. Carney, Jr. | Nov 13, 2013 | |
| D-OH | Joyce Beatty | Nov 13, 2013 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Dec 4, 2013 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Dec 9, 2013 | |
| D-NM | Michelle Lujan Grisham | Dec 23, 2013 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Feb 10, 2014 | |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Feb 10, 2014 | |
| D-MA | Katherine M. Clark | May 22, 2014 | |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | May 22, 2014 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Jul 11, 2014 | |
| D-WA | Denny Heck | Jul 11, 2014 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Jul 11, 2014 | |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Jul 11, 2014 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Mar 5, 2013 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2013Introduced in House
- Mar 5, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H5348.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 113-49 | A PATH FORWARD ON POSTAL REFORM130 pages | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Jul 17, 2013 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43349 | U.S. Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits and Pension Funding Issues Archived | Report | Jan 7, 2015 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2690 | Innovate to Deliver Act of 2013 | Related bill | Sep 13, 2013 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the computation of normal-cost percentage for postal employees as a separate and distinct class, and to provide for the disposition of certain excess retirement contributions made by the United States Postal Service.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- United States Postal Service Stabilization Act of 2013
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 5, 2013Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.