Saved history · 2015 and 2016

Laws of the 114th Congress

The 329 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2015 to January 3, 2017, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.

329 laws
84 with a recorded vote · 245 passed with no recorded vote

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37,374 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 114-229 · Became law Advancing Hope Act of 2016

To extend the pediatric priority review voucher program.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-228 · Became law Department of Veterans Affairs Expiring Authorities Act of 2016

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 89–0
H.R. 5937 · Became law Public Law 114-227

To amend title 36, United States Code, to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-226 · Became law West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016

To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into certain leases at the Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Campus in Los Angeles, California, to make certain improvements to the enhanced-use lease authority of the Department, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 5252 · Became law Public Law 114-225

To designate the United States Customs and Border Protection Port of Entry located at 1400 Lower Island Road in Tornillo, Texas, as the “Marcelino Serna Port of Entry”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-224 · Became law Virgin Islands of the United States Centennial Commission Act

To establish the Virgin Islands of the United States Centennial Commission.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-223 · Became law Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act

Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 342–85Senate 72–26
Public Law 114-222 · Became law Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act

To deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 348–77Senate 97–1
Public Law 114-221 · Became law NATIVE Act

To enhance and integrate Native American tourism, empower Native American communities, increase coordination and collaboration between Federal tourism assets, and expand heritage and cultural tourism opportunities in the United States.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3969 · Became law Public Law 114-220

To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Laughlin, Nevada, as the “Master Chief Petty Officer Jesse Dean VA Clinic”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 3207 · Became law Public Law 114-219

To authorize the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to provide playback equipment in all formats.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-218 · Became law Department of Veterans Affairs Dental Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2016

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a dental insurance plan to veterans and survivors and dependents of veterans.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-217 · Became law Library of Congress Sound Recording and Film Preservation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2016

To reauthorize the sound recording and film preservation programs of the Library of Congress, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-216 · Became law National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2015

To reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 306–117Senate 63–30
Public Law 114-215 · Became law John F. Kennedy Centennial Commission Act

To establish the John F. Kennedy Centennial Commission.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 5028 · Became law Public Law 114-214

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10721 E Jefferson Ave in Detroit, Michigan, as the “Mary E. McCoy Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4987 · Became law Public Law 114-213

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3957 2nd Avenue in Laurel Hill, Florida, as the “Sergeant First Class William `Kelly' Lacey Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4975 · Became law Public Law 114-212

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5720 South 142nd Street in Omaha, Nebraska, as the “Petty Officer 1st Class Caleb A. Nelson Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4925 · Became law Public Law 114-211

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 229 West Main Cross Street, in Findlay, Ohio, as the “Michael Garver Oxley Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-210 · Became law MEGABYTE Act of 2016

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue a directive on the management of software licenses, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 366–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 4877 · Became law Public Law 114-209

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3130 Grants Lake Boulevard in Sugar Land, Texas, as the “LCpl Garrett W. Gamble, USMC Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4777 · Became law Public Law 114-208

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1301 Alabama Avenue in Selma, Alabama as the “Amelia Boynton Robinson Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4761 · Became law Public Law 114-207

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 61 South Baldwin Avenue in Sierra Madre, California, as the “Louis Van Iersel Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4747 · Became law Public Law 114-206

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6691 Church Street in Riverdale, Georgia, as the “Major Gregory E. Barney Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4425 · Became law Public Law 114-205

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 East Powerhouse Road in Collegeville, Minnesota, as the “Eugene J. McCarthy Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4010 · Became law Public Law 114-204

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 522 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, as the “Ed Pastor Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3953 · Became law Public Law 114-203

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4122 Madison Street, Elfers, Florida, as the “Private First Class Felton Roger Fussell Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3931 · Became law Public Law 114-202

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 Central Avenue Suite 1A in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, as the “Chief Petty Officer Adam Brown United States Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-201 · Became law Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016

To provide housing opportunities in the United States through modernization of various housing programs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 427–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2607 · Became law Public Law 114-200

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7802 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, New York, as the “Jeanne and Jules Manford Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-199 · Became law POLICE Act of 2016

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds for active shooter training, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
Public Law 114-198 · Became law Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016

An Act to authorize the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to address the prescription opioid abuse and heroin use crisis, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–5Senate 92–2
Public Law 114-197 · Became law Veterans' Compensation COLA Act of 2016

To increase, effective as of December 1, 2016, 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 114-196 · Became law United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016

To establish the United States Semiquincentennial Commission, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-195 · Became law Global Food Security Act of 2016

To authorize a comprehensive strategic approach for United States foreign assistance to developing countries to reduce global poverty and hunger, achieve food and nutrition security, promote inclusive, sustainable, agricultural-led economic growth, improve nutritional outcomes, especially for women and children, build resilience among vulnerable populations, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 369–53Senate: voice vote
Public Law 114-194 · Became law Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Extension Act of 2016

To extend the termination of sanctions with respect to Venezuela under the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4960 · Became law Public Law 114-193

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the “Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4372 · Became law Public Law 114-192

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15 Rochester Street, Bergen, New York, as the Barry G. Miller Post Office.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-191 · Became law Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016

To direct the President to establish guidelines for covered United States foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-190 · Became law FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016

To amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate 89–4
H.R. 3114 · Became law Public Law 114-189

To provide funds to the Army Corps of Engineers to hire veterans and members of the Armed Forces to assist the Corps with curation and historic preservation activities, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 422–3Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-188 · Became law Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to identify mental health care and suicide prevention programs and metrics that are effective in treating women veterans as part of the evaluation of such programs by the Secretary, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-187 · Became law PROMESA

To reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate 68–30
Public Law 114-186 · Became law Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015

To improve Federal agency financial and administrative controls and procedures to assess and mitigate fraud risks, and to improve Federal agencies' development and use of data analytics for the purpose of identifying, preventing, and responding to fraud, including improper payments.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-185 · Became law FOIA Improvement Act of 2016

To improve the Freedom of Information Act.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-184 · Became law Recovering Missing Children Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the disclosure of certain tax return information for the purpose of missing or exploited children investigations.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-183 · Became law PIPES Act of 2016

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide enhanced safety in pipeline transportation, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-182 · Became law Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act

To modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 403–12Senate: voice vote
H.R. 2212 · Became law Public Law 114-181

To take certain Federal lands located in Lassen County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Susanville Indian Rancheria, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-180 · Became law Federal Law Enforcement Self-Defense and Protection Act of 2015

To ensure Federal law enforcement officers remain able to ensure their own safety, and the safety of their families, during a covered furlough.

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