Laws of the 108th Congress
The 498 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2005, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
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64,456 individual votes saved for this Congress.
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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 designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19504 Linden Boulevard in St. Albans, New York, as the “Archie Spigner Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 West Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, as the “Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modify the boundary of the Harry S Truman National Historic Site in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1115 South Clinton Avenue in Dunn, North Carolina, as the “General William Carey Lee Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend Public Law 86-434 establishing Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in the State of Missouri to expand the boundaries of the park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo clarify the loan guarantee authority under title VI of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2811 Springdale Avenue in Springdale, Arkansas, as the “Harvey and Bernice Jones Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedExpressing the sense of the Congress in recognition of the contributions of the seven Columbia astronauts by supporting establishment of a Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve the process for verifying an individual's eligibility for employment.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of certain land to the United States and to revise the boundary of Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 555 West 180th Street in New York, New York, as the “Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate Fort Clatsop National Memorial as the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, to include in the park sites in the State of Washington as well as the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize improvements in the operations of the government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo adjust the boundary of the John Muir National Historic Site, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the control and eradication of the brown tree snake on the island of Guam and the prevention of the introduction of the brown tree snake to other areas of the United States, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 44, United States Code, to improve the efficiency of operations by the National Archives and Records Administration and to reauthorize the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands and facilities of the Provo River Project.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of several small parcels of National Forest System land in the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, to resolve boundary discrepancies involving the Mt. Trial Primitive Baptist Church of Wakulla County, Florida, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo clarify the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coast Barrier Resources System Cedar Keys Unit P25 on Otherwise Protected Area P25P.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Organic Act of Guam for the purposes of clarifying the local judicial structure of Guam.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo give a preference regarding States that require schools to allow students to self-administer medication to treat that student's asthma or anaphylaxis, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo protect the voting rights of members of the Armed Services in elections for the Delegate representing American Samoa in the United States House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 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 startedTo amend the Indian Land Consolidation Act to improve provisions relating to probate of trust and restricted land, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the State Justice Institute.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modify and extend certain privatization requirements of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to limit the tort liability of private entities or organizations that carry out responsibilities of the United States Central Authority under that Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend for eighteen months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code, is reenacted.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. (posthumously) and his widow Coretta Scott King in recognition of their contributions to the Nation on behalf of the civil rights movement.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo expand the boundaries of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield to authorize the acquisition and interpretation of lands associated with the campaign that resulted in the capture of the fort in 1862, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo temporarily extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend provisions relating to mammography quality standards.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 to support programs of grants to States to address the assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo increase, effective as of December 1, 2004, the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, and to provide for better coordination of Federal efforts and information on islet cell transplantation.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement water supply technology and infrastructure programs aimed at increasing and diversifying domestic water resources.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the securities laws to permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the definition of anabolic steroids and to provide for research and education activities relating to steroids and steroid precursors.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and workers more competitive and productive both at home and abroad.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend certain authority of the Supreme Court Police, modify the venue of prosecutions relating to the Supreme Court building and grounds, and authorize the acceptance of gifts to the United States Supreme Court.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to support the planning, implementation, and evaluation of organized activities involving statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies, to authorize grants to institutions of higher education to reduce student mental and behavioral health problems, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study of a Chimayo water supply system, to provide for the planning, design, and construction of a water supply, reclamation, and filtration facility for Espanola, New Mexico, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4141 Postmark Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, as the “Robert J. Opinsky Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make technical corrections to laws relating to certain units of the National Park System and to National Park programs.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Lease Lot Conveyance Act of 2002 to provide that the amounts received by the United States under that Act shall be deposited in the reclamation fund, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative sites.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to permit members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to serve for 2 terms.
Plain-language account: Not started