To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill gives a federal commemorative name to the United States Postal Service facility at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The facility must be known and designated as the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building. The bill also includes a reference-continuity clause: any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other United States record to the facility is deemed to be a reference to the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building. It does not change postal services, create a new facility, move the post office, or appropriate construction funds; it changes the official federal name and updates how federal references are interpreted.
Who Benefits and How
Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole's family, Sewickley residents, local civic organizations, postal customers at the Thorn Street facility, community historians, local elected officials, and the United States Postal Service benefit from formal federal recognition and a clear legal naming convention. The community receives a visible memorial through an existing public facility.
Who Bears the Burden and How
United States Postal Service facility managers, postal signage staff, federal map editors, federal records staff, postal operations administrators, and local post office staff must update signs, maps, records, references, and administrative materials to use the new commemorative name. The burden is administrative and limited to naming and reference updates.
Key Provisions
- Designates the USPS facility at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building.
- Requires federal legal, map, regulatory, document, paper, and record references to be treated as references to the commemorative name.
- Provides a naming change without changing postal operations or facility location.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Designates the United States Postal Service facility at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building and treats every federal legal, map, regulatory, document, paper, or record reference to that facility as a reference to the commemorative name.
Key Policy Areas
Postal Service, Commemorative Naming
Primary Purpose
Designates the United States Postal Service facility at 521 Thorn Street in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as the Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole Post Office Building and treats every federal legal, map, regulatory, document, paper, or record reference to that facility as a reference to the commemorative name.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Mary Elizabeth Bettie Cole's family
- Sewickley residents
- Local civic organizations
- Postal customers
- Community historians
- Local elected officials
Identified Costs
- United States Postal Service facility managers
- Postal signage staff
- Federal map editors
- Federal records staff
- Postal operations administrators
- Local post office staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Mr. Deluzio (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Postal signage staff, United States Postal Service
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