Bill orders postal service to give 83 communities their own ZIP codes.
S. 4505 — A bill to require the United States Postal Service to designate ZIP Codes for certain communities. · Filed by Joni Ernst (R-IA) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced May 12, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
The bill tells the U.S. Postal Service to create new ZIP codes for 83 named communities. These communities are spread across 24 states. The postal service must finish this work within one year. Right now, many of these communities share ZIP codes with nearby areas.
Who it affects
The U.S. Postal Service will have to assign new ZIP codes. People in the 83 named communities may see address changes. Postal workers will need to update their systems.
One thing to notice
The bill names 83 communities across 24 states but gives no reason why. The bill does not say what problem it solves.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 5 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
- May 12, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 12, 2026 — 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. Reported by Senator Paul 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
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $60,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Joni Ernst, who sponsored the bill, received $342,120 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Zip Code Advocacy Coalition (informal Coalition) — $40,000 in 1 report
- City of Fort Myers, Florida — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- ZIP codes — Numbers the postal service uses to sort and deliver mail to the right places.
- U.S. Postal Service — The government agency that collects and delivers mail across the country.
- 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 (3,408 characters) on Aug 7, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 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 2026-09-17.
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