H.R. 4876: Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010
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H.R. 4876: Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010
111th Congress · introduced 2010-03-18 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2010-03-18 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010
Plain summary
Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 - Requires the United States Postal Service to issue and sell, at a premium, a Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp. Requires proceeds from the sale of such stamp to be transferred to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the operations of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Prohibits such proceeds from being taken into account in any decision relating to the level of appropriations or other federal funding to be furnished to the EPA or such Initiative. Requires the stamp to: (1) be made available to the public for at least five years; and (2) depict images of the five Great Lakes.
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Official text
Great Lakes Restoration Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Dahlkemper, Kathleen A. [D-PA-3] · 15 cosponsors
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Mike Quigley (D-IL)
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Words on this page, explained (2)
- Appropriation
- Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
- Ballot initiative
- A proposed law or constitutional amendment that citizens place on the ballot by gathering enough voter signatures, so voters decide it directly. About half the states allow some form of it.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111hr4876.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/hr>
Record fed-us-cong111-hr4876 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111