The record

LegislationLegislation· Sep 2026
HR 1706 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Timothy M. Kennedy (D)

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the "William J. Donovan Post Office Building".

Names the Buffalo postal facility at 1200 William Street the William J. Donovan Post Office Building.

Tradeoff

No fiscal impact. Renames a postal facility in Buffalo after William J. Donovan.

What's in it

See official bill text

No scoreable federal cost; bill designates a postal facility name.

The federal cost to implement this naming designation is effectively zero—the bill simply directs the Postal Service to change signage at an existing facility, requiring no new program funding or .

H.R. 1706, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1200 William Street, Room 200, in Buffalo, New York, as the "William J. Donovan Post Office Building" · Aug 2026

Passed the House by on April 14, 2026 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Feb 27, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Oversight and Government Reform(Feb 27, 2025)

  3. House

    The committee voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 38 - 2(Dec 2, 2025)

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Apr 14, 2026)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs(Apr 15, 2026)

  6. Senate

    The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted to send it to the floor

    Reported(Aug 6, 2026)