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.
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 authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, to be illuminated by pink lights in honor of breast cancer awareness month.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the promotion of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in the Republic of Belarus and for the consolidation and strengthening of Belarus sovereignty and independence.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain lands in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the Ridges Basin Reservoir, Colorado, as Lake Nighthorse.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise and extend the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize and facilitate hydroelectric power licensing of the Tapoco Project.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Trails System Act to designate El Camino Real de los Tejas as a National Historic Trail.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo transfer Federal lands between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the preservation and interpretation of the historic sites of the Manhattan Project for potential inclusion in the National Park System.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo replace certain Coastal Barrier Resources System maps.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the State of Arkansas for use as a cemetery.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the subdivision and dedication of restricted land owned by Alaska Natives.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the implementation of air quality programs developed in accordance with an Intergovernmental Agreement between the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the State of Colorado concerning Air Quality Control on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo promote human rights and freedom in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require a report on acts of anti-Semitism around the world.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out construction and related activities in support of the collaborative Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) project on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 31, United States Code, to improve the financial accountability requirements applicable to the Department of Homeland Security, to establish requirements for the Future Years Homeland Security Program of the Department, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Act of November 2, 1966 (80 Stat. 1112), to allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts affecting the land within the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize volunteer programs and community partnerships for national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo clarify the tax treatment of bonds and other obligations issued by the Government of American Samoa.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize a land conveyance between the United States and the City of Craig, Alaska, 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, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedCommemorating the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo expand the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to permit Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards to be made to nonprofit organizations.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend the term of the Forest Counties Payments Committee.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Reclamation Project Authorization Act of 1972 to clarify the acreage for which the North Loup division is authorized to provide irrigation water under the Missouri River Basin project.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish Institutes to demonstrate and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Williamson County, Texas, Water Recycling and Reuse Project, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution systems of the Cachuma Project, California, to the Carpinteria Valley Water District and the Montecito Water District.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the exchange of certain lands within the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site for lands owned by the City of Atlanta, Georgia, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for additional lands to be included within the boundary of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for an adjustment of the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide an extension of highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program through March 31, 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise the boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of the real property located at 1081 West Main Street in Ravenna, Ohio.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate certain conduct by sports agents relating to the signing of contracts with student athletes as unfair and deceptive acts or practices to be regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, for additional disaster assistance.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo implement the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo preserve the ability of the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages under sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 73 South Euclid Avenue in Montauk, New York, as the “Perry B. Duryea, Jr. Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modify certain deadlines pertaining to machine-readable, tamper-resistant entry and exit documents.
Plain-language account: Not started