Support Our Troops Shipping Relief Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6216 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6216 To exempt nonprofit organizations sending humanitarian care packages to members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas from certain tariff and postal reporting requirements, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 20, 2025 Mr. Moulton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To exempt nonprofit organizations sending humanitarian care packages to members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas from certain tariff and postal reporting requirements, 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. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Support Our Troops Shipping Relief Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) Nonprofit organizations, such as Operation Troop Support in Danvers, Massachusetts, have shipped millions of care packages to members of the United States Armed Forces deployed overseas, containing comfort items, personal supplies, and messages of encouragement. (2) Recent Customs and postal reporting requirements--such as the need to list six-digit Harmonized System codes and item- by-item country-of-origin data--were designed for commercial trade, not humanitarian parcels, and have unintentionally restricted the ability of volunteer organizations to send morale-support shipments abroad. (3) These bur