Saved history · 2013 and 2014

Laws of the 113th Congress

The 296 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2013 to January 3, 2015, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

296 laws
113 with a recorded vote · 183 passed with no recorded vote

1 passage vote is not checked yet.

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49,909 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.

Public Law 113-196 · Became law Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain programs relating to traumatic brain injury and to trauma research.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-195 · Became law Sunscreen Innovation Act

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide an alternative process for review of safety and effectiveness of nonprescription sunscreen active ingredients and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-194 · Became law Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse Conveyance Act

To direct the Administrator of General Services to convey the Clifford P. Hansen Federal Courthouse to Teton County, Wyoming.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1512 · Became law Public Law 113-193

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1335 Jefferson Road in Rochester, New York, as the “Specialist Theodore Matthew Glende Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1499 · Became law Public Law 113-192

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 278 Main Street in Chadron, Nebraska, as the “Sergeant Cory Mracek Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1093 · Became law Public Law 113-191

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 Caldwell Drive in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, as the “First Lieutenant Alvin Chester Cockrell, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-190 · Became law Albuquerque, New Mexico, Federal Land Conveyance Act of 2013

To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl High School Foundation.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 885 · Became law Public Law 113-189

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Park Street in Danville, Vermont, as the “Thaddeus Stevens Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-188 · Became law Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014

To provide for the elimination or modification of Federal reporting requirements.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 382–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 113-187 · Became law Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014

To amend chapter 22 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as the Presidential Records Act, to establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-186 · Became law Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014

To reauthorize and improve the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate 88–1
Public Law 113-185 · Became law IMPACT Act of 2014

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for standardized post-acute care assessment data for quality, payment, and discharge planning, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S.J.Res. 40 · Became law Public Law 113-184

Providing for the appointment of Michael Lynton as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-183 · Became law Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act

To prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child support recovery.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-182 · Became law Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014

To reauthorize programs authorized under the Debbie Smith Act of 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-181 · Became law Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2014

To provide for an increase, effective December 1, 2014, in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-180 · Became law Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 410–4Senate: without objection
Public Law 113-179 · Became law Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act

To reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami Indians, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 359–64Senate: without objection
S. 476 · Became law Public Law 113-178

To amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 419–0Senate: without objection
S. 276 · Became law Public Law 113-177

To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the American Falls Reservoir.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.J.Res. 120 · Became law Public Law 113-176

Approving the location of a memorial to commemorate the more than 5,000 slaves and free Black persons who fought for independence in the American Revolution.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-175 · Became law Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2014

To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5134 · Became law Public Law 113-174

To extend the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity and the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance for one year.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-173 · Became law Examination and Supervisory Privilege Parity Act of 2014

To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to specify that privilege and confidentiality are maintained when information is shared by certain nondepository covered persons with Federal and State financial regulators, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4809 · Became law Public Law 113-172

To reauthorize the Defense Production Act, to improve the Defense Production Act Committee, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 386–32Senate: without objection
H.R. 4751 · Became law Public Law 113-171

To make technical corrections to Public Law 110-229 to reflect the renaming of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 422–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 113-170 · Became law All Circuit Review Extension Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to extend the period of certain authority with respect to judicial review of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions relating to whistleblowers, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-169 · Became law Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - Fish Springs Ranch Settlement Act

To ratify a water settlement agreement affecting the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-168 · Became law Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2014

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of general welfare benefits provided by Indian tribes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2600 · Became law Public Law 113-167

To amend the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act to clarify how the Act applies to condominiums.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 410–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 113-166 · Became law Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2014

To amend the Public Health Service Act relating to Federal research on muscular dystrophy, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-165 · Became law Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2013

To reauthorize the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-164 · Became law Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015

Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 319–108Senate 78–22
Public Law 113-163 · Became law Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act of 2013

To reauthorize subtitle A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-162 · Became law Assessing Progress in Haiti Act of 2014

To measure the progress of recovery and development efforts in Haiti following the earthquake of January 12, 2010, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
Public Law 113-161 · Became law Near East and South Central Asia Religious Freedom Act of 2014

To provide for the establishment of the Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
Public Law 113-160 · Became law Emergency Afghan Allies Extension Act of 2014

To provide additional visas for the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 113-159 · Became law Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014

To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 367–55Senate 81–13
H.R. 4838 · Became law Public Law 113-158

To redesignate the railroad station located at 2955 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, commonly known as “30th Street Station”, as the “William H. Gray III 30th Street Station”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-157 · Became law Autism CARES Act of 2014

To reauthorize certain provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to autism, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-156 · Became law Money Remittances Improvement Act of 2014

To allow the Secretary of the Treasury to rely on State examinations for certain financial institutions, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4360 · Became law Public Law 113-155

To designate the facility of the United States Forest Service for the Grandfather Ranger District located at 109 Lawing Drive in Nebo, North Carolina, as the “Jason Crisp Forest Service Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4028 · Became law Public Law 113-154

To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the desecration of cemeteries among the many forms of violations of the right to religious freedom.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3765 · Became law Public Law 113-153

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 198 Baker Street in Corning, New York, as the “Specialist Ryan P. Jayne Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-152 · Became law Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014

To amend title XII of the Public Health Service Act to expand the definition of trauma to include thermal, electrical, chemical, radioactive, and other extrinsic agents.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3472 · Became law Public Law 113-151

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13127 Broadway Street in Alden, New York, as the “Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 113-150 · Became law Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2014

To ensure compliance with the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by countries with which the United States enjoys reciprocal obligations, to establish procedures for the prompt return of children abducted to other countries, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
H.R. 2291 · Became law Public Law 113-149

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, as the “Vincent R. Sombrotto Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1671 · Became law Public Law 113-148

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6937 Village Parkway in Dublin, California, as the “James `Jim' Kohnen Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 398–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 606 · Became law Public Law 113-147

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the “Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
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