Saved history · 2003 and 2004

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.

498 laws
144 with a recorded vote · 354 passed with no recorded vote

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64,456 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. 3536 · Became law Public Law 108-248

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, as the “Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3353 · Became law Public Law 108-247

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 Main Street in Tarboro, North Carolina, as the “George Henry White Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3300 · Became law Public Law 108-246

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15500 Pearl Road in Strongsville, Ohio, as the “Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 410–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3234 · Became law Public Law 108-245

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 Chestnut Street in Liberty, New York, as the “Ben R. Gerow Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3068 · Became law Public Law 108-244

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2055 Siesta Drive in Sarasota, Florida, as the “Brigadier General (AUS- Ret.) John H. McLain Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3059 · Became law Public Law 108-243

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 304 West Michigan Street in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as the “Lloyd L. Burke Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 425–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3029 · Became law Public Law 108-242

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 255 North Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia, as the “S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2438 · Became law Public Law 108-241

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 115 West Pine Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as the “Major Henry A. Commiskey, Sr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2130 · Became law Public Law 108-240

To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 121 Kinderkamack Road in River Edge, New Jersey, as the “New Bridge Landing Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1822 · Became law Public Law 108-239

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3751 West 6th Street in Los Angeles, California, as the “Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 399–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-238 · Became law National Great Black Americans Commemoration Act of 2004

To authorize assistance for the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum and Justice Learning Center.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-237 · Became law Standards Development Organization Advancement Act of 2003

To encourage the development and promulgation of voluntary consensus standards by providing relief under the antitrust laws to standards development organizations with respect to conduct engaged in for the purpose of developing voluntary consensus standards, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S.J.Res. 28 · Became law Public Law 108-236

Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Allied landing at Normandy during World War II.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 419–0Senate: without objection
S. 2092 · Became law Public Law 108-235

To address the participation of Taiwan in the World Health Organization.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 3104 · Became law Public Law 108-234

To provide for the establishment of separate campaign medals to be awarded to members of the uniformed services who participate in Operation Enduring Freedom and to members of the uniformed services who participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–0Senate 98–0
Public Law 108-233 · Became law Irvine Basin Surface and Groundwater Improvement Act of 2004

To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in projects within the San Diego Creek Watershed, California, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-232 · Became law Premier Certified Lenders Program Improvement Act of 2004

To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to allow certain premier certified lenders to elect to maintain an alternative loss reserve.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 416–3Senate: without objection
H.R. 856 · Became law Public Law 108-231

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise a repayment contract with the Tom Green County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1, San Angelo project, Texas, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 708 · Became law Public Law 108-230

To require the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in Mendocino National Forest, California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such conveyance for National Forest purposes, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 408 · Became law Public Law 108-229

To provide for expansion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2315 · Became law Public Law 108-228

To amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to extend the deadline for the INTELSAT initial public offering.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S. 2043 · Became law Public Law 108-227

To designate a Federal building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as the “Ronald Reagan Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2022 · Became law Public Law 108-226

To designate the Federal building located at 250 West Cherry Street in Carbondale, Illinois the “Senator Paul Simon Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1904 · Became law Public Law 108-225

To designate the United States courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the “Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 408–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-224 · Became law Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part II

To 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 started
House 410–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3118 · Became law Public Law 108-223

To designate the Orville Wright Federal Building and the Wilbur Wright Federal Building in Washington, District of Columbia.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-222 · Became law Cowlitz Indian Tribe Distribution of Judgment Funds Act

To provide for the distribution of judgment funds to the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 404–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 1274 · Became law Public Law 108-221

To direct the Administrator of General Services to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing Federal courthouse in that county.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 421–0Senate: without objection
S. 2057 · Became law Public Law 108-220

To require the Secretary of Defense to reimburse members of the United States Armed Forces for certain transportation expenses incurred by the members in connection with leave under the Central Command Rest and Recuperation Leave Program before the program was expanded to include domestic travel.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2584 · Became law Public Law 108-219

To provide for the conveyance to the Utrok Atoll local government of a decommissioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 379–1Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-218 · Became law Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004

To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 336–69Senate 78–19
H.R. 4062 · Became law Public Law 108-217

To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through June 4, 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-216 · Became law Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote organ donation, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 414–2Senate: without objection
H.R. 254 · Became law Public Law 108-215

To authorize the President of the United States to agree to certain amendments to the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States concerning the establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 377–48Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-214 · Became law Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make technical corrections relating to the amendments made by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 396–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-213 · Became law Energy Efficient Housing Technical Correction Act

To amend section 220 of the National Housing Act to make a technical correction to restore allowable increases in the maximum mortgage limits for FHA-insured mortgages for multifamily housing projects to cover increased costs of installing a solar energy system or residential energy conservation measures.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-212 · Became law Laci and Conner's Law

To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 254–163Senate 61–38
S. 2241 · Became law Public Law 108-211

To reauthorize certain school lunch and child nutrition programs through June 30, 2004.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-210 · Became law Welfare Reform Extension Act of 2004

To reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program through June 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-209 · Became law Fort Bayard National Historic Landmark Act

To designate Fort Bayard Historic District in the State of New Mexico as a National Historic Landmark, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-208 · Became law Galisteo Basin Archaeological Sites Protection Act

To provide for the protection of archaeological sites in the Galisteo Basin in New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2136 · Became law Public Law 108-207

An original bill to extend the final report date and termination date of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, to provide additional funding for the Commission, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S. 714 · Became law Public Law 108-206

To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of Bureau of Land Management land in Douglas County, Oregon, to the county to improve management of and recreational access to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 397–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3915 · Became law Public Law 108-205

To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through April 2, 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-204 · Became law Native American Technical Corrections Act of 2004

To make technical corrections to laws relating to Native Americans, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-203 · Became law Social Security Protection Act of 2004

To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional safeguards for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries with representative payees, to enhance program protections, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 402–19Senate: without objection
Public Law 108-202 · Became law Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004

To 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 started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-201 · Became law NASA Flexibility Act of 2004

To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, to provide for workforce flexibilities and certain Federal personnel provisions relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-200 · Became law Congo Basin Forest Partnership Act of 2004

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 to carry out the Congo Basin Forest Partnership program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 108-199 · Became law Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004

Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 242–176Senate 65–28
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