To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Highland City, Utah.
Summary
What This Bill Does
H.R. 6399 requires the United States Postal Service (USPS) to designate a single ZIP Code covering only Highland City, Utah, within 270 days after enactment. Congress would mandate this particular geographic outcome rather than merely request a postal boundary review. The bill does not select the digits, prescribe delivery routes or create a post office. The introduced text supplies the analysis baseline. The committee substitute considered on March 18, 2026 changes the section heading but retains the same city, deadline and operative requirement; it does not add other communities.
Who Benefits and How
Highland City residents and local businesses are the intended beneficiaries of a postal identifier specific to their city. More consistent geographic identification could reduce some addressing confusion in mailing or customer records, but that is an implementation-dependent inference, not a guaranteed improvement in delivery speed or accuracy. Highland City municipal offices obtain a statutory route to the requested designation. A ZIP Code is a postal identifier, not a change to municipal boundaries or an automatic determination of taxes, insurance premiums, emergency dispatch jurisdiction or eligibility for public services.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USPS must implement the designation within the statutory deadline and bear the administrative and operational cost of making its address systems support the new code. Highland City residents, businesses and mailers may face transition costs to update mailing addresses, stationery and customer databases. Those private updates are a likely practical consequence, not a separate reporting mandate in the bill. The text provides no appropriation, implementation reimbursement or transition-cost estimate. It also does not require new delivery facilities, change postage rates or guarantee that all third-party address databases update immediately.
Key Provisions
- Requires USPS to designate a single ZIP Code encompassing solely Highland City, Utah.
- Requires that designation within 270 days after enactment, without prescribing the actual five-digit code.
- Provides no appropriation, new post office, postage-rate change or automatic change to nonpostal jurisdictions.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Require the United States Postal Service to designate one ZIP Code covering solely Highland City, Utah, within 270 days of enactment.
Key Policy Areas
Postal Services, Local Government
Primary Purpose
Require the United States Postal Service to designate one ZIP Code covering solely Highland City, Utah, within 270 days of enactment.
Policy Domains
To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Highland City, Utah.
Identified Gains
- Highland City residents
- Highland City businesses
- Highland City municipal offices
Identified Costs
- United States Postal Service
- Highland City residents
- Highland City businesses
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: …
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was …
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Highland City municipal government, United States Postal Service
Positive-direction: Highland City municipal government
Negative-direction: United States Postal Service
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "usps"
- → United States Postal Service
- "covered_city"
- → Highland City, Utah; no other municipality is added by the reviewed committee substitute
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A ZIP Code applicable solely to Highland City under this bill; not a claim that residents become high-volume recipients in the separate USPS technical Unique ZIP Code category.
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