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.

H.R. 1762 · Became law Public Law 114-179

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in The Dalles, Oregon, as the “Loren R. Kaufman VA Clinic”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-178 · Became law Indian Trust Asset Reform Act

To provide for Indian trust asset management reform, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4605 · Became law Public Law 114-177

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 615 6th Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as the “Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4046 · Became law Public Law 114-176

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 220 East Oak Street, Glenwood City, Wisconsin, as the Second Lt. Ellen Ainsworth Memorial Post Office.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3866 · Became law Public Law 114-175

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1265 Hurffville Road in Deptford Township, New Jersey, as the “First Lieutenant Salvatore S. Corma II Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3735 · Became law Public Law 114-174

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Town Run Lane in Winston Salem, North Carolina, as the “Maya Angelou Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 371–9Senate: without objection
H.R. 3601 · Became law Public Law 114-173

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7715 Post Road, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, as the “Melvoid J. Benson Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3274 · Became law Public Law 114-172

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4567 Rockbridge Road in Pine Lake, Georgia, as the “Francis Manuel Ortega Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3082 · Became law Public Law 114-171

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5919 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the “Daryle Holloway Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2928 · Became law Public Law 114-170

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 B Street in Perryville, Arkansas, as the “Harold George Bennett Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2458 · Became law Public Law 114-169

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5351 Lapalco Boulevard in Marrero, Louisiana, as the “Lionel R. Collins, Sr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1132 · Became law Public Law 114-168

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1048 West Robinhood Drive in Stockton, California, as the “W. Ronald Coale Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 433 · Became law Public Law 114-167

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 523 East Railroad Street in Knox, Pennsylvania, as the “Specialist Ross A. McGinnis Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 136 · Became law Public Law 114-166

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 in Camp Pendleton, California, as the “Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 381–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-165 · Became law Native American Children's Safety Act

To amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act to require background checks before foster care placements are ordered in tribal court proceedings, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2814 · Became law Public Law 114-164

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Sevierville, Tennessee, the Dannie A. Carr Veterans Outpatient Clinic.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2143 · Became law Public Law 114-163

To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1523 · Became law Public Law 114-162

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1492 · Became law Public Law 114-161

To direct the Administrator of General Services, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, to convey certain Federal property located in the State of Alaska to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4957 · Became law Public Law 114-160

To designate the Federal building located at 99 New York Avenue, N.E., in the District of Columbia as the “Ariel Rios Federal Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-159 · Became law American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016

To establish a process for the submission and consideration of petitions for temporary duty suspensions and reductions, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 415–2Senate: without objection
H.R. 4336 · Became law Public Law 114-158

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery of the cremated remains of certain persons whose service has been determined to be active service.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4238 · Became law Public Law 114-157

To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 376–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-156 · Became law Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2016

To provide Capitol-flown flags to the immediate family of firefighters, law enforcement officers, members of rescue squads or ambulance crews, and public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-155 · Became law Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015

To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2020, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 114-154 · Became law Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2015

To provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to target extraterritorial drug trafficking activity, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-153 · Became law Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016

To amend chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code, to provide Federal jurisdiction for the theft of trade secrets, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 410–2Senate 87–0
Public Law 114-152 · Became law National Bison Legacy Act

To adopt the bison as the national mammal of the United States.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-151 · Became law Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act

To protect and preserve international cultural property at risk due to political instability, armed conflict, or natural or other disasters, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-150 · Became law Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Consolidation Accountability Act of 2015

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress information on the Department of Homeland Security headquarters consolidation project in the National Capital Region, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 719 · Became law Public Law 114-149

To rename the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Great Falls, Montana, the Captain John E. Moran and Captain William Wylie Galt Armed Forces Reserve Center.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 387–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-148 · Became law Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin Act

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of the fight against breast cancer.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 421–9Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-147 · Became law National POW/MIA Remembrance Act of 2015

To direct the Architect of the Capitol to place in the United States Capitol a chair honoring American Prisoners of War/Missing in Action.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-146 · Became law Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

To expand the tropical disease product priority review voucher program to encourage treatments for Zika virus.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-145 · Became law Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016

To improve enforcement efforts related to prescription drug diversion and abuse, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-144 · Became law Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2016

To reauthorize the Older Americans Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 114-143 · Became law Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to modernize the integrated public alert and warning system of the United States, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-142 · Became law Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2015

To extend temporarily the extended period of protection for members of uniformed services relating to mortgages, mortgage foreclosure, and eviction, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-141 · Became law Airport and Airway Extension 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: without objection
Public Law 114-140 · Became law Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2016

To establish the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S. 2426 · Became law Public Law 114-139

To direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 381–0Senate: without objection
S. 1826 · Became law Public Law 114-138

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West 2nd Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as the Lieutenant Colonel James “Maggie” Megellas Post Office.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 406–1Senate: without objection
Public Law 114-137 · Became law Competitive Service Act of 2015

To allow additional appointing authorities to select individuals from competitive service certificates.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-136 · Became law Edward "Ted" Kaufman and Michael Leavitt Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015

To improve the process of presidential transition.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1755 · Became law Public Law 114-135

To amend title 36, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the congressional charter of the Disabled American Veterans.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 1596 · Became law Public Law 114-134

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2082 Stringtown Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the “Specialist Joseph W. Riley Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-133 · Became law Eric Williams Correctional Officer Protection Act of 2015

To amend title 18, United States Code, to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to issue oleoresin capsicum spray to officers and employees of the Bureau of Prisons.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 114-132 · Became law Directing Dollars to Disaster Relief Act of 2015

To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop an integrated plan to reduce administrative costs under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4437 · Became law Public Law 114-131

To extend the deadline for the submittal of the final report required by the Commission on Care.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4056 · Became law Public Law 114-130

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey to the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs all right, title, and interest of the United States to the property known as “The Community Living Center” at the Lake Baldwin Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Orlando, Florida.

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