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H.R. 1065119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Feb 6, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
Introduced:
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HR 1065 increases security for mail carriers by funding safer equipment, requiring dedicated prosecutors, and raising penalties for attacks on postal workers.
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This bill would fund more secure mail collection boxes and replace old master keys with electronic ones to reduce mail theft and robberies. It would require the Justice Department to assign a dedicated federal prosecutor in every court district to handle crimes involving mail theft or attacks on postal workers. It would also direct the U.S. Sentencing Commission to update its guidelines so that assaulting or robbing a postal worker carries the same penalty level as assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Mail carriers and other U.S. Postal Service employees are the people most directly affected. People who commit crimes against postal workers would also face changes under this bill.
If passed, crimes against mail carriers could result in tougher sentences than they do under current guidelines. Every federal court district would also have a prosecutor whose main focus is mail-related crimes.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.