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.
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37,374 individual votes saved for this Congress.
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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 provide for the conveyance of land of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Danville, Illinois.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise the boundaries of certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Florida.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo allow the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to lease or transfer certain lands.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend Privacy Act remedies to citizens of certified states, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions and activities, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the President's annual budget request to Congress each year to include a line item for the Research in Disabilities Education program of the National Science Foundation and to require the National Science Foundation to conduct research on dyslexia.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve defense cooperation between the United States and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve the enforcement of sanctions against the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a comprehensive United States Government policy to encourage the efforts of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to develop an appropriate mix of power solutions, including renewable energy, for more broadly distributed electricity access in order to support poverty reduction, promote development outcomes, and drive economic growth, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo protect children and others from sexual abuse and exploitation, including sex trafficking and sex tourism, by providing advance notice of intended travel by registered sex offenders outside the United States to the government of the country of destination, requesting foreign governments to notify the United States when a known sex offender is seeking to enter the United States, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise certain authorities of the District of Columbia courts, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo close out expired grants.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require special packaging for liquid nicotine containers, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve payments for complex rehabilitation technology and certain radiation therapy services, to ensure flexibility in applying the hardship exception for meaningful use for the 2015 EHR reporting period for 2017 payment adjustments, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the manufacture and introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of rinse-off cosmetics containing intentionally-added plastic microbeads.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting facilities to receive certain disaster assistance, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish the Surface Transportation Board as an independent establishment, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide access to and use of information by Federal agencies in order to reduce improper payments, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedAppointing the day for the convening of the second session of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo exempt for an additional 4-year period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 90 days.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the annual comment period for payment rates under Medicare Advantage.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend temporarily the Federal Perkins Loan program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the arboretum at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, as the “Phyllis E. Galanti Arboretum”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo prevent Hizballah and associated entities from gaining access to international financial and other institutions, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, located in the State of Washington, as the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, to establish the Medicine Creek Treaty National Memorial within the wildlife refuge, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2016, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 39, United States Code, to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize technical assistance to small public water systems, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend and expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking appropriations for the Legislative Branch for fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedAn original bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo suspend the current compensation packages for the chief executive officers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo address problems related to prenatal opioid use.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry by encouraging private sector investment and creating more stable and predictable regulatory conditions, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to drug scheduling recommendations by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and with respect to registration of manufacturers and distributors seeking to conduct clinical testing.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve the disaster assistance programs of the Small Business Administration.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo establish a 10-year term for the service of the Librarian of Congress.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify waiver authority regarding programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs).
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4500 SE 28th Street, Del City, Oklahoma, as the James Robert Kalsu Post Office Building.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 206 West Commercial Street in East Rochester, New York, as the “Officer Daryl R. Pierson Memorial Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 90 Cornell Street in Kingston, New York, as the “Staff Sergeant Robert H. Dietz Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo strengthen enforcement mechanisms to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, to amend the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 to implement the Antigua Convention, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to establish a social media working group, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started