H.R. 380 Introduced Commerce

Affordable Shipping for All Act

To require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United States, and for other purposes.

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Became law
Sponsor Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1] Introduced January 14, 2025 Cosponsors 5 (2 D, 3 R) Latest action January 14, 2025

Summary

Affordable Shipping for All Act
This bill limits shipping services from excluding service or charging higher prices to noncontiguous areas of the United States.
Specifically, private shipping services (e.g., FedEx) and the U.S. Postal Service are prohibited from charging a higher rate to ship a consumer product or producer good (e.g., raw material) to a noncontiguous area of the United States than they charge to ship the same product to and from a location within the contiguous United States. Under the bill, a noncontiguous area includes Alaska and Hawaii and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States (including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands).
Additionally, such shipping services may not exclude services to such a noncontiguous location.
Consumer products or producer goods valued at more than $10,000 are exempt from the requirements of this bill.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

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Actions

  1. Jan 14, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
  2. Jan 14, 2025 Introduced in House
  3. Jan 14, 2025 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E28)

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