To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee, as the "Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill would give the existing United States Postal Service facility at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee the commemorative designation Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building. It also treats references to the facility in federal laws, maps, regulations, documents and other records as references to that same facility under the designated name. It does not create a second post office or change the street address. All 4 formally available text versions have identical operative wording.
Who Benefits and How
Residents using the facility gain a commemorative designation for their local post office. The United States Postal Service and federal records users gain clarity that the name Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building identifies the specified existing facility. These are honorary and administrative benefits, not payments or expanded service entitlements. The text gives no industry a material economic advantage and supplies no evidence of additional mail volume, jobs or commercial revenue.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The United States Postal Service must administer the designation and reference rule. Updating signs or records could involve routine costs, but the bill specifies no replacement deadline, appropriation or new reporting process. Postal customers face no new charge, eligibility requirement or private compliance duty. The text does not change delivery routes, service hours, staffing, postage rates, ownership or closure rules.
Key Provisions
- Provides the commemorative designation Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building for the facility at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee.
- Requires existing references in federal laws, maps, regulations and other records to be read as references to the designated facility.
- Provides no new appropriation, construction project or postal-service expansion.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Name the existing United States Postal Service facility at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee the Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building and preserve continuity of federal references to that facility.
Key Policy Areas
Postal Facilities, Commemorative Designations
Primary Purpose
Name the existing United States Postal Service facility at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee the Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building and preserve continuity of federal references to that facility.
Policy Domains
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee, as the "Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building".
Identified Gains
- Residents using the designated postal facility
- United States Postal Service
- Federal records users
Identified Costs
- United States Postal Service
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator …
Reported by Mr. Paul, without amendment
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "designated_name"
- → Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Harlan Willis Post Office Building
- "facility_location"
- → 417 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee
- "facility_administrator"
- → United States Postal Service
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Federal references identify the specified existing postal facility under the commemorative name; the rule is not a transfer of property or an expansion of postal services.
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