§ 3220. Use of official mail in the location and recovery of missing children

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1985

   Pub. L. 99–87 § 1(a)(1) · 99 Stat. 290

   Enacted · 39 U.S.C. § 3220

   Added Pub. L. 99–87, § 1(a)(1), Aug. 9, 1985, 99 Stat. 290

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Added Pub. L. 99–87, § 1(a)(1), Aug. 9, 1985, 99 Stat. 290

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Chapter 32 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 3220. Use of official mail in the location and recovery of missing children “(a) (1) The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, after consultation with appropriate public and private agencies, shall prescribe general guidelines under which penalty mail may be used to assist in the location and recovery of missing children. The guidelines shall provide information relating to— “(A) the form and manner in which materials and information relating to missing children (such as biographical data and pictures, sketches, or other likenesses) may be included in penalty mail; “(B) appropriate sources from which such materials and information may be obtained; “(C) the procedures by which such materials and information may be obtained; and “(D) any other matter which the Office considers appropriate. “(2) Each executive department and independent establishment of the Government of the United States shall prescribe regulations under which penalty mail sent by such department or establishment may be used in conformance with the guidelines prescribed under paragraph (1). “(b) The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards shall prescribe for their respective Houses rules and regulations, and shall take such other action as the Committee or Commission considers necessary and proper, in order that purposes similar to those of subsection (a) may, in the discretion of the congressional official or office concerned, be carried out by the use of franked mail sent by such official or office. “(c) As used in this section, ‘Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’ and ‘Office’ each means the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Department of Justice, as established by section 201 of the Juvenile Justice and 42 USC prec. 5611, 5611. Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.”.

2. 2020

   Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2021

   Pub. L. 116–260 div. I title I § 116(b)(2)(A)(iii) · 134 Stat. 1182

   Substituted · 39 U.S.C. § 3220(b)

   Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “House Communications Standards Commission” for “House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “House Communications Standards Commission” for “House Commission on Congressional Mailing Standards”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 116. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be used by the United States Mint to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 116–260 applicable with respect to communications disseminated on or after Dec. 27, 2020, see section 116(f) of div. I of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 501 of Title 2, The Congress.

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