To provide for the issuance and sale of a semipostal by the United States Postal Service for the fight against colorectal cancer.

Directs the United States Postal Service to issue and sell a semipostal (a postage stamp sold at a premium to help providing funding for a cause) the proceeds of which shall be allocated to the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program and the National Institutes of Health for colorectal cancer research and to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for colorectal cancer control programs.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 893 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 893

  To provide for the issuance and sale of a semipostal by the United 
     States Postal Service for the fight against colorectal cancer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2011

   Mr. Dent introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
 Committees on Energy and Commerce and Armed Services, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the issuance and sale of a semipostal by the United 
     States Postal Service for the fight against colorectal cancer.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COLORECTAL CANCER SEMIPOSTAL.

    (a) In General.--In order to contribute to the fight against 
colorectal cancer, the United States Postal Service shall provide for 
the issuance and sale of a semipostal, in accordance with section 416 
of title 39, United States Code, subject to the following:
            (1) Disposition of amounts.--Of the amounts becoming 
        available from the sale of the semipostal--
                    (A) 40 percent shall be transferred to the 
                Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research 
                Program for colorectal cancer research;
                    (B) 40 percent shall be transferred to the Centers 
                for Disease Control and Prevention for colorectal 
                cancer control programs; and
                    (C) the remainder shall be transferred to the 
                National Institutes of Health for colorectal cancer 
                research.
            (2) Exclusion from numerical limitation.--No semipostal 
        issued pursuant to this Act shall be taken into account for 
        purposes of applying any numerical limitation established under 
        section 416(e)(1)(C) of title 39, United States Code.
    (b) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``semipostal'' has the meaning given such term 
        by section 416(a)(1) of title 39, United States Code; and
            (2) any determination of the ``amounts becoming available'' 
        from the sale of a semipostal shall be made in accordance with 
        section 416(d) of title 39, United States Code.
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