Saved history · 2017 and 2018

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.

442 laws
152 with a recorded vote · 290 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

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.

Public Law 115-320 · Became law Improving Access to Maternity Care Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to distribute maternity care health professionals to health professional shortage areas identified as in need of maternity care health services.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 405–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 4960 · Became law Public Law 115-290

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 511 East Walnut Street in Columbia, Missouri, as the “Spc. Sterling William Wyatt Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 368–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 4946 · Became law Public Law 115-289

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1075 North Tustin Street in Orange, California, as the “Specialist Trevor A. Win'E Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 368–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-282 · Became law Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018

To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate 94–6
Public Law 115-281 · Became law National Flood Insurance Program Further Extension Act of 2018

To extend the National Flood Insurance Program until December 7, 2018.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 350–46Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-279 · Became law Gulf Islands National Seashore Land Exchange Act

To authorize the exchange of certain land located in Gulf Islands National Seashore, Jackson County, Mississippi, between the National Park Service and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 375–1Senate: voice vote
H.R. 1037 · Became law Public Law 115-275

To authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 414–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-271 · Became law SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act

To provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House adopted H.Res. 1099, 393–8Senate 98–1
Public Law 115-270 · Became law America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018

To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to provide for water pollution control activities, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate 99–1
Public Law 115-263 · Became law Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act

To ensure that health insurance issuers and group health plans do not prohibit pharmacy providers from providing certain information to enrollees.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate 98–2
Public Law 115-257 · Became law Justice Served Act of 2018

To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide additional resources to State and local prosecutors, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 377–1Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-254 · Became law FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018

To provide protections for certain sports medicine professionals, to reauthorize Federal aviation programs, to improve aircraft safety certification processes, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House adopted H.Res. 1082, 398–23Senate 93–6
Public Law 115-245 · Became law Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019

Making consolidated appropriations for the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 361–61Senate 93–7
Public Law 115-244 · Became law Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019

Making consolidated appropriations for Energy and Water Development, the Legislative Branch, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 377–20Senate 92–5
Public Law 115-233 · Became law National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018

To require the Federal Communications Commission to study the feasibility of designating a simple, easy-to-remember dialing code to be used for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 379–1Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-232 · Became law John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 started
House 359–54Senate 87–10
Public Law 115-225 · Became law National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2018

To extend the National Flood Insurance Program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 366–52Senate 86–12
H.R. 4406 · Became law Public Law 115-211

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 Macombs Place in New York, New York, as the “Tuskegee Airmen Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 387–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 3183 · Became law Public Law 115-209

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13683 James Madison Highway in Palmyra, Virginia, as the “U.S. Navy Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 389–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2292 · Became law Public Law 115-206

To extend a project of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission involving the Cannonsville Dam.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 400–1Senate: without objection
H.R. 220 · Became law Public Law 115-201

To authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 424–1Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-191 · Became law John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire approximately 44 acres of land in Martinez, California, for inclusion in the John Muir National Historic Site, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–15Senate: without objection
H.R. 1397 · Became law Public Law 115-190

To authorize, direct, facilitate, and expedite the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal land, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 406–0Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-185 · Became law Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018

To authorize the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 394–13Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-184 · Became law Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide outer burial receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 388–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-182 · Became law VA MISSION Act of 2018

To establish a permanent community care program for veterans, to establish a commission for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the modernization or realignment of facilities of the Veterans Health Administration, to improve construction of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to make certain improvements in the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs relating to the home loan program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 347–70Senate 92–5
H.R. 3562 · Became law Public Law 115-177

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish assistance for adaptations of residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs under chapter 31 of such title, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 400–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-176 · Became law Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017

To authorize the use of unapproved medical products by patients diagnosed with a terminal illness in accordance with State law, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 250–169Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-175 · Became law Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act

To transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 407–0Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-174 · Became law Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act

To promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 258–159Senate 67–31
S.J.Res. 57 · Became law Public Law 115-172

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to “Indirect Auto Lending and Compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 234–175Senate 51–47
Public Law 115-169 · Became law National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act

To designate a National Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 384–1Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-168 · Became law Keep America's Refuges Operational Act

To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer services, community partnership, and refuge education programs of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 371–14Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-165 · Became law Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018

To amend titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act to improve and strengthen the representative payment program.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 396–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-164 · Became law Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of such Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 388–25Senate 97–2
Public Law 115-156 · Became law Removing Outdated Restrictions to Allow for Job Growth Act

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States the condition that certain lands conveyed to the City of Old Town, Maine, be used for a municipal airport, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 418–1Senate: without objection
H.R. 3821 · Became law Public Law 115-152

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 430 Main Street in Clermont, Georgia, as the “Zack T. Addington Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 420–0Senate: voice vote
H.R. 2672 · Became law Public Law 115-145

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the “Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–0Senate: voice vote
H.R. 2464 · Became law Public Law 115-144

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 New Chardon Street Lobby in Boston, Massachusetts, as the “John Fitzgerald Kennedy Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 395–0Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-141 · Became law Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to include severe forms of trafficking in persons within the definition of transnational organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of the Department of State, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 256–167Senate 65–32
H.R. 1858 · Became law Public Law 115-139

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4514 Williamson Trail in Liberty, Pennsylvania, as the “Staff Sergeant Ryan Scott Ostrom Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 397–0Senate: voice vote
H.R. 452 · Became law Public Law 115-134

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the “Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 418–0Senate: voice vote
H.R. 4533 · Became law Public Law 115-132

To designate the health care system of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lexington, Kentucky, as the “Lexington VA Health Care System” and to make certain other designations.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 402–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 115-126 · Became law Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017

To prevent the sexual abuse of minors and amateur athletes by requiring the prompt reporting of sexual abuse to law enforcement authorities, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 406–3Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-123 · Became law Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

To amend title 4, United States Code, to provide for the flying of the flag at half-staff in the event of the death of a first responder in the line of duty.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 240–186Senate 71–28
Public Law 115-122 · Became law Alex Diekmann Peak Designation Act of 2017

To designate a mountain peak in the State of Montana as “Alex Diekmann Peak”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 400–3Senate: without objection
H.R. 195 · Became law Public Law 115-120

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 266–150Senate 81–18
Public Law 115-118 · Became law FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017

An Act to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve foreign intelligence collection and the safeguards, accountability, and oversight of acquisitions of foreign intelligence, to extend title VII of such Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 256–164Senate 65–34
Public Law 115-117 · Became law Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

To modify the boundary of the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 390–0Senate: voice vote
Public Law 115-114 · Became law Connected Government Act

To require a new or updated Federal website that is intended for use by the public to be mobile friendly, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 423–0Senate: without objection
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