Laws of the 115th Congress
The 442 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2017 to January 3, 2019, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
67,776 individual votes saved for this Congress.
Laws with a recorded vote
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 enhance the transparency, improve the coordination, and intensify the impact of assistance to support access to primary and secondary education for displaced children and persons, including women and girls, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo help prevent acts of genocide and other atrocity crimes, which threaten national and international security, by enhancing United States Government capacities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to such crises.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2021, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modernize the regulation of nuclear energy.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to provide flexibility with respect to the leaseback of certain Federal real property, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to ensure that the Public Buildings Reform Board has adequate time to carry out the responsibilities of the Board, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for an integrated planning process, to promote green infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend titles 5 and 44, United States Code, to require Federal evaluation activities, improve Federal data management, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for a program of the Department of Defense to commemorate the 75th anniversary of World War II.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge as the Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo improve programs and activities relating to women's entrepreneurship and economic empowerment that are carried out by the United States Agency for International Development, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to modify the criteria for determining whether countries are meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the expeditious disclosure of records related to civil rights cold cases, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize subtitle A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information System, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a tiger team dedicated to addressing the difficulties encountered by the Department of Veterans Affairs in carrying out section 3313 of title 38, United States Code, after the enactment of sections 107 and 501 of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lake Charles, Louisiana, as the “Douglas Fournet Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend certain transportation-related reporting requirements to improve congressional oversight, reduce reporting burdens, and promote transparency, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend chapter 5 of title 40, United States Code, to improve the management of Federal personal property.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require disclosure by lobbyists of convictions for bribery, extortion, embezzlement, illegal kickbacks, tax evasion, fraud, conflicts of interest, making false statements, perjury, or money laundering.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt investment advisers who solely advise certain rural business investment companies, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide access to and manage the distribution of excess or surplus property to veteran-owned small businesses.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo award a Congressional Gold Medal to Stephen Michael Gleason.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require agencies to submit reports on outstanding recommendations in the annual budget justification submitted to Congress.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide competitive grants for the operation, security, and maintenance of certain memorials to victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to submit to Congress a report on the development and use of global health innovations in the programs, projects, and activities of the Agency.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Museum and Library Services Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to improve health care in rural areas.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the expansion of activities related to Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, and brain health under the Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Aging Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo expand recreational fishing opportunities through enhanced marine fishery conservation and management, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 51, United States Code, to extend the authority of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to enter into leases of non-excess property of the Administration.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the National Science Foundation to provide grants for research about STEM education approaches and the STEM-related workforce, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo encourage, enhance, and integrate Ashanti Alert plans throughout the United States, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of Homeland Security to examine what actions the Department of Homeland Security is undertaking to combat the threat of vehicular terrorism, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Act of August 4, 1947 (commonly known as the Stigler Act), with respect to restrictions applicable to Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training pilot program to address human trafficking in the health care system.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Act to promote international action to reduce marine debris, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a security vulnerability disclosure policy, to establish a bug bounty program for the Department of Homeland Security, to amend title 41, United States Code, to provide for Federal acquisition supply chain security, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Traumatic Brain Injury program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for a coordinated Federal program to accelerate quantum research and development for the economic and national security of the United States.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain public lands in Ouachita National Forest, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to give effect to more accurate maps of units of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System that were produced by digital mapping of such units, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to coordinate Federal congenital heart disease research efforts and to improve public education and awareness of congenital heart disease, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo revise and extend the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act (PREEMIE Act).
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, Alaska, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started