Laws of the 105th Congress
The 394 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 1997 to January 3, 1999, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
40,222 individual votes saved for this Congress.
All laws
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.
To redesignate the United States courthouse located at 100 Franklin Street in Dublin, Georgia, as the “J. Roy Rowland United States Courthouse”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Northeast First Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the “David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to encourage retirement income savings.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service under construction at 150 West Margaret Drive in Terre Haute, Indiana, as the “John T. Myers Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the building in Indianapolis, Indiana, which houses the operations of the Indianapolis Main Post Office as the “Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo promote the adoption of children in foster care.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the United States Post Office building located at 313 East Broadway in Glendale, California, as the “Carlos J. Moorhead Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the United States Post Office building located at 153 East 110th Street, New York, New York, as the “Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study concerning grazing use and open space within and adjacent to Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, and to extend temporarily certain grazing privileges.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make technical amendments to certain provisions of title 17, United States Code.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of certain land in the Six Rivers National Forest in the State of California for the benefit of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo transfer the Dillon Ranger District in the Arapaho National Forest to the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving the Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the expansion of the Eagles Nest Wilderness within the Arapaho National Forest and the White River National Forest, Colorado, to include land known as the Slate Creek Addition.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain lands located in Hinsdale County, Colorado.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt internationally adopted children 10 years of age or younger from the immunization requirement in section 212(a)(1)(A)(ii) of such Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify treatment of investment managers under such title.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 551 Kingstown Road in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, as the “David B. Champagne Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo confer status as an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces on Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the United States courthouse at 500 State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, as the “Robert J. Dole United States Courthouse”.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National Monument, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the release of the reversionary interest held by the United States in certain property located in the County of Iosco, Michigan.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System; to designate the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to improve the management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the special immigrant religious worker program, to amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the deadline for designation of an effective date for paperwork changes in the employer sanctions program, and to require the Secretary of State to waive or reduce the fee for application and issuance of a nonimmigrant visa for aliens coming to the United States for certain charitable purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the authorization of appropriations in each fiscal year for arbitration in United States district courts, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Federal building located at 601 Fourth Street, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the “Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office Memorial Building”, in honor of William H. Christian, Jr., Martha Dixon Martinez, Michael J. Miller, Anthony Palmisano, and Edwin R. Woodriffe.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions toward religious understanding and peace, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the transfer of surplus personal property to States for donation to nonprofit providers of necessaries to impoverished families and individuals, and to authorize the transfer of surplus real property to States, political subdivisions and instrumentalities of States, and nonprofit organizations for providing housing or housing assistance for low-income individuals or families.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of a parcel of unused agricultural land in Dos Palos, California, to the Dos Palos Ag Boosters for use as a farm school.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide permanent authority for the administration of au pair programs.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for carrying out the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started