Saved history · 1995 and 1996

Laws of the 104th Congress

The 333 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 1995 to January 3, 1997, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

333 laws
88 with a recorded vote · 245 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

38,837 individual votes saved for this Congress.

Plain-language accounts for laws before January 3, 2025: Not started. A law's page shows the official title, the member votes we have saved and our saved files.

Public Law 104-183 · Became law Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1996

To amend the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to extend the Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-182 · Became law Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996

To reauthorize and amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (commonly known as the “Safe Drinking Water Act”), and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 392–30Senate 98–0
H.J.Res. 166 · Became law Public Law 104-181

Granting the consent of Congress to the Mutual Aid Agreement between the city of Bristol, Virginia, and the city of Bristol, Tennessee.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-180 · Became law Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 379–42Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-179 · Became law Office of Government Ethics Authorization Act of 1996

To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics for 3 years, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3215 · Became law Public Law 104-178

To amend title 18, United States Code, to repeal the provision relating to Federal employees contracting or trading with Indians.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-177 · Became law Federal Employee Representation Improvement Act of 1996

To amend title 18 of the United States Code to allow members of employee associations to represent their views before the United States Government.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S.J.Res. 20 · Became law Public Law 104-176

Granting the consent of Congress to the compact to provide for joint natural resource management and enforcement of laws and regulations pertaining to natural resources and boating at the Jennings Randolph Lake Project lying in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia, entered into between the States of West Virginia and Maryland.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
S. 531 · Became law Public Law 104-175

To authorize a circuit judge who has taken part in an in banc hearing of a case to continue to participate in that case after taking senior status, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 1114 · Became law Public Law 104-174

To authorize minors who are under the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and who are under 18 years of age to load materials into balers and compactors that meet appropriate American National Standards Institute design safety standards.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 1051 · Became law Public Law 104-173

To provide for the extension of certain hydroelectric projects located in the State of West Virginia.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-172 · Became law Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996

To impose sanctions on persons making certain investments directly and significantly contributing to the enhancement of the ability of Iran or Libya to develop its petroleum resources, and on persons exporting certain items that enhance Libya's weapons or aviation capabilities or enhance Libya's ability to develop its petroleum resources, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 3161 · Became law Public Law 104-171

To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of Romania.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 334–86Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-170 · Became law Food Quality Protection Act of 1996

To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 417–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-169 · Became law National Gambling Impact Study Commission Act

To create the National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-168 · Became law Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for increased taxpayer protections.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 425–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-167 · Became law Mollie Beattie Alaska Wilderness Area Act

Entitled the “Mollie Beattie Wilderness Area Act”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 248 · Became law Public Law 104-166

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the conduct of expanded studies and the establishment of innovative programs with respect to traumatic brain injury, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 701 · Became law Public Law 104-165

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey lands to the city of Rolla, Missouri.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 3121 · Became law Public Law 104-164

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions under those Acts, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-163 · Became law National Children's Island Act of 1995

To require the transfer of title to the District of Columbia of certain real property in Anacostia Park to facilitate the construction of National Children's Island, a cultural, educational, and family-oriented park.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2853 · Became law Public Law 104-162

To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of Bulgaria.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2070 · Became law Public Law 104-161

To provide for the distribution within the United States of the United States Information Agency film entitled “Fragile Ring of Life”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 403–2Senate: without objection
H.R. 3364 · Became law Public Law 104-160

To designate a United States courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the "William J. Nealon United States Courthouse".

Plain-language account: Not started
House 340–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2704 · Became law Public Law 104-159

To provide that the United States Post Office building that is to be located at 7436 South Exchange Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, shall be known and designated as the “Charles A. Hayes Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2437 · Became law Public Law 104-158

To provide for the exchange of certain lands in Gilpin County, Colorado.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1880 · Became law Public Law 104-157

To designate the United States Post Office building located at 102 South McLean, Lincoln, Illinois, as the “Edward Madigan Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-156 · Became law Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996

To streamline and improve the effectiveness of chapter 75 of title 31, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “Single Audit Act”).

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-155 · Became law Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996

To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the Federal jurisdiction over offenses relating to damage to religious property.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate 98–0
S. 1903 · Became law Public Law 104-154

To designate the bridge, estimated to be completed in the year 2000, that replaces the bridge on Missouri highway 74 spanning from East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the “Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge”, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-153 · Became law Anticounterfeiting Consumer Protection Act of 1996

To control and prevent commercial counterfeiting, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-152 · Became law Anti-Car Theft Improvements Act of 1996

To amend the anti-car theft provisions of title 49, United States Code, to increase the utility of motor vehicle title information to State and Federal law enforcement officials, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3029 · Became law Public Law 104-151

To designate the United States courthouse in Washington, District of Columbia, as the “E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-150 · Became law Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1996

To reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-149 · Became law Healthy Meals for Children Act

To amend the National School Lunch Act to provide greater flexibility to schools to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans under the school lunch and school breakfast programs.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1836 · Became law Public Law 104-148

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire property in the town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, for inclusion in the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 1743 · Became law Public Law 104-147

To amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to extend the authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-146 · Became law Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 1996

A bill to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 402–4Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-145 · Became law Megan's Law

To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to require the release of relevant information to protect the public from sexually violent offenders.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 418–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2064 · Became law Public Law 104-144

To grant the consent of Congress to an amendment of the Historic Chattahoochee Compact between the States of Alabama and Georgia.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 104-143 · Became law Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Reauthorization Act of 1995

To amend the Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Act of 1984, to extend for three years the availability of moneys for the restoration of fish and wildlife in the Trinity River, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 412–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 104-142 · Became law Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act

To phase out the use of mercury in batteries and provide for the efficient and cost-effective collection and recycling or proper disposal of used nickel cadmium batteries, small sealed lead-acid batteries, and certain other batteries, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 3055 · Became law Public Law 104-141

To amend section 326 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit continued participation by Historically Black Graduate Professional Schools in the grant program authorized by that section.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
S.J.Res. 53 · Became law Public Law 104-140

A joint resolution making corrections to Public Law 104-134.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
H.R. 2556 · Became law Public Law 104-139

To redesignate the Federal building located at 345 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, California, and known as the Earth Sciences and Library Building, as the “Vincent E. McKelvey Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 2415 · Became law Public Law 104-138

To designate the United States Customs Administrative Building at the Ysleta/Zaragosa Port of Entry located at 797 South Zaragosa Road in El Paso, Texas, as the “Timothy C. McCaghren Customs Administrative Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 1804 · Became law Public Law 104-137

To designate the United States Post Office-Courthouse located at South 6th and Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas, as the “Judge Isaac C. Parker Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 373–40Senate: voice vote
H.R. 869 · Became law Public Law 104-136

To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 125 Market Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the “Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 414–0Senate: voice vote
H.R. 255 · Became law Public Law 104-135

To designate the Federal Justice Building in Miami, Florida, as the “James Lawrence King Federal Justice Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 104-134 · Became law Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996

Making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a further downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 399–25Senate 88–11
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