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To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes.

To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jan 9, 2025

Latest action (Jan 9, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (2)
Postal serviceVirginia

Summary

This bill directs the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Pulaski County. Currently, Fairlawn and the nearby independent city of Radford share the same ZIP Codes, which causes electronic commerce sales tax collected in Fairlawn to be misallocated to Radford instead of staying with Pulaski County. The USPS must complete the ZIP Code designation within 180 days of the bill's enactment. The separate ZIP Code is intended to enable accurate sales tax collection and distribution between the two jurisdictions.

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Sponsor (1)

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

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  • HR 6317 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12109 New Kent Highway in New Kent, Virginia, as the Patricia Paige Post Office. (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 5058 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building. (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 4623 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12109 New Kent Highway in New Kent, Virginia, as the "Patricia Paige Post Office". (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 6332 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 4505 — A bill to require the United States Postal Service to designate ZIP Codes for certain communities. (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 3630 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 3294 — A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 7365 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1225 Kempsville Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as the "Colonel Edward Shames Post Office Building". (shares 2 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 64 — A bill to direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jan 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 86%
  • S 2364 — A bill to direct the United States Postal Service to designate single, unique ZIP Codes for certain communities, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jul 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • S 2961 — A bill to direct the United States Postal Service to designate single, unique ZIP Codes for certain communities, and for other purposes. · Introduced Oct 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 3176 — A bill to direct the United States Postal Service to designate single, unique ZIP Codes for certain Oklahoma communities, and for other purposes. · Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • S 4505 — A bill to require the United States Postal Service to designate ZIP Codes for certain communities. · Introduced Aug 6, 2026 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 2430 — To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Northlake, Texas. · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 9, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2025

Mr. Griffith introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. ZIP CODE FOR FAIRLAWN, VIRGINIA.

(a) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that—

(1) the Commonwealth of Virginia is the only State in the United States where all cities are independent from their surrounding counties;

(2) these independent cities are not politically a part of the surrounding counties, even if they are located within their borders;

(3) in Virginia these independent cities are subject to separate revenue collection and distribution practices related to roads, resources, and sales tax than neighboring counties;

(4) the sales tax collected from electronic commerce from the unincorporated community of Fairlawn, Virginia, located in Pulaski County, is often misallocated to the independent city of Radford, Virginia, because they share the same ZIP Codes; and

(5) Fairlawn, Virginia, should be eligible to obtain a separate and unique ZIP Code from the neighboring independent city of Radford, Virginia, for tax purposes.

(b) ZIP Code Designation.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service shall designate a single, unique ZIP Code applicable to Fairlawn, Virginia. <all>

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