Communities can request ZIP code changes through a new formal process.
S. 3175 — CIPZIP Act of 2025 · Filed by James Lankford (R-OK) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill tells the Postal Service to set up a formal process. State, local, and tribal governments can ask for ZIP code boundary changes. It creates a pilot program. Governments can pay the Postal Service to cover costs of changes. The Postal Service keeps the final say. It must write down why it denies a request.
Who it affects
Citizens in communities gain a say in postal infrastructure. State, local, and tribal governments can request changes and fund them. The Postal Service must explain its decisions in writing.
One thing to notice
The pilot program ends after 7 years. Communities that pay for ZIP code changes may lose that option later. The bill does not say how the Postal Service will calculate costs.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Nov 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Nov 18, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs”
- Aug 6, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $70,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
James Lankford, who sponsored the bill, received $382,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Zip Code Advocacy Coalition (informal Coalition) — $70,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- pilot program — A test project that runs for a set time to see if an idea works.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (7,412 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,778 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-01.
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