Saved history · 2001 and 2002

Laws of the 107th Congress

The 377 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2003, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

377 laws
130 with a recorded vote · 247 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

56,676 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.

H.R. 5207 · Became law Public Law 107-227

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6101 West Old Shakopee Road in Bloomington, Minnesota, as the “Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-226 · Became law Flight 93 National Memorial Act

To authorize a national memorial to commemorate the passengers and crew of Flight 93 who, on September 11, 2001, courageously gave their lives thereby thwarting a planned attack on our Nation's Capital, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3287 · Became law Public Law 107-225

To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 900 Brentwood Road, NE, in Washington, D.C., as the “Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. Processing and Distribution Center”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-224 · Became law John F. Kennedy Center Plaza Authorization Act of 2002

To amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project for construction of a plaza adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3380 · Became law Public Law 107-223

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines within the boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3343 · Became law Public Law 107-222

To amend title X of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-221 · Became law Fort Clatsop National Memorial Expansion Act of 2002

To authorize the acquisition of additional lands for inclusion in the Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 331–18Senate: without objection
H.R. 2441 · Became law Public Law 107-220

To amend the Public Health Service Act to redesignate a facility as the National Hansen's Disease Programs Center, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2440 · Became law Public Law 107-219

To rename Wolf Trap Farm Park as “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-218 · Became law Tumacacori National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2002

To revise the boundary of the Tumacacori National Historical Park in the State of Arizona.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 356–14Senate: without objection
H.R. 2068 · Became law Public Law 107-217

To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to public buildings, property, and works, as title 40, United States Code, “Public Buildings, Property, and Works”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-216 · Became law James Peak Wilderness and Protection Area Act

To designate the James Peak Wilderness and Protection Area in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-215 · Became law Booker T. Washington National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 2002

To expand the boundary of the Booker T. Washington National Monument, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-214 · Became law Long Walk National Historic Trail Study Act

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route in Arizona and New Mexico which the Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indian tribes were forced to walk in 1863 and 1864, for study for potential addition to the National Trails System.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 601 · Became law Public Law 107-213

To redesignate certain lands within the Craters of the Moon National Monument, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-212 · Became law Guam Foreign Investment Equity Act

To provide for the determination of withholding tax rates under the Guam income tax.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 223 · Became law Public Law 107-211

To amend the Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1993 to provide additional time for Clear Creek County to dispose of certain lands transferred to the county under the Act.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 413–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-210 · Became law Trade Act of 2002

To extend the Andean Trade Preference Act, to grant additional trade benefits under that Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 215–212Senate 64–34
S.J.Res. 13 · Became law Public Law 107-209

Conferring honorary citizenship of the United States posthumously on Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-208 · Became law Child Status Protection Act

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to determine whether an alien is a child, for purposes of classification as an immediate relative, based on the age of the alien on the date the classification petition with respect to the alien is filed, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-207 · Became law Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002

To protect infants who are born alive.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-206 · Became law 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the United States

Making supplemental appropriations for further recovery from and response to terrorist attacks on the United States for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 397–32Senate 92–7
Public Law 107-205 · Became law Nurse Reinvestment Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to health professions programs regarding the field of nursing.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-204 · Became law Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

To protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–3Senate 99–0
H.R. 3971 · Became law Public Law 107-203

To provide for an independent investigation of Forest Service firefighter deaths that are caused by wildfire entrapment or burnover.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 377–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-202 · Became law Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission Act

To establish the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-201 · Became law Support of American Eagle Silver Bullion Program Act

To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver on the open market when the silver stockpile is depleted, to be used to mint coins.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.J.Res. 87 · Became law Public Law 107-200

Approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 306–117Senate: voice vote
S. 2578 · Became law Public Law 107-199

To amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 215–214Senate 68–29
Public Law 107-198 · Became law Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002

To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for the purpose of facilitating compliance by small business concerns with certain Federal paperwork requirements, to establish a task force to examine information collection and dissemination, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 418–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3275 · Became law Public Law 107-197

To implement the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings to strengthen criminal laws relating to attacks on places of public use, to implement the International Convention of the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, to combat terrorism and defend the Nation against terrorist acts, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate 83–1
Public Law 107-196 · Became law Mychal Judge Police and Fire Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 2002

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive public safety officer death benefits.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-195 · Became law Auction Reform Act of 2002

To eliminate the deadlines for spectrum auctions of spectrum previously allocated to television broadcasting.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4486 · Became law Public Law 107-194

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1590 East Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as the “Clarence B. Craft Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3960 · Became law Public Law 107-193

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3719 Highway 4 in Jay, Florida, as the “Joseph W. Westmoreland Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3789 · Became law Public Law 107-192

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2829 Commercial Way in Rock Springs, Wyoming, as the “Teno Roncalio Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1374 · Became law Public Law 107-191

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 600 Calumet Street in Lake Linden, Michigan, as the “Philip E. Ruppe Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 408–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 1366 · Became law Public Law 107-190

To designate the United States Post Office building located at 3101 West Sunflower Avenue in Santa Ana, California, as the “Hector G. Godinez Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-189 · Became law Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2002

To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 344–78Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-188 · Became law Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002

To improve the ability of the United States to prevent, prepare for, and respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 425–1Senate 98–0
Public Law 107-187 · Became law Gerald B. H. Solomon Freedom Consolidation Act of 2002

To endorse the vision of further enlargement of the NATO Alliance articulated by President George W. Bush on June 15, 2001, and by former President William J. Clinton on October 22, 1996, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 372–46Senate 85–6
H.R. 4782 · Became law Public Law 107-186

To extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank until June 14, 2002.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1840 · Became law Public Law 107-185

To extend eligibility for refugee status of unmarried sons and daughters of certain Vietnamese refugees.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4608 · Became law Public Law 107-184

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center in Wichita, Kansas, as the “Robert J. Dole Department of Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4592 · Became law Public Law 107-183

To name the chapel located in the national cemetery in Los Angeles, California, as the “Bob Hope Veterans Chapel”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 378 · Became law Public Law 107-182

To redesignate the Federal building located at 3348 South Kedzie Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois, as the “Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 107-181 · Became law Clergy Housing Allowance Clarification Act of 2002

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that the parsonage allowance exclusion is limited to the fair rental value of the property.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 408–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 107-180 · Became law Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Restructuring Act of 2002

To authorize certain Federal officials with responsibility for the administration of the criminal justice system of the District of Columbia to serve on and participate in the activities of the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2048 · Became law Public Law 107-179

To require a report on the operations of the State Justice Institute.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3282 · Became law Public Law 107-178

To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 400 North Main Street in Butte, Montana, as the “Mike Mansfield Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–0Senate: without objection
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