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.

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. 5772 · Became law Public Law 115-242

To designate the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, as the “J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-241 · Became law Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-240 · Became law Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act of 2018

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire additional Veterans Justice Outreach Specialists to provide treatment court services to justice-involved veterans, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-239 · Became law Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018

To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 115-238 · Became law Veterans Providing Healthcare Transition Improvement Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to ensure that the requirements that new Federal employees who are veterans with service-connected disabilities are provided leave for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disabilities apply to certain employees of the Veterans Health Administration.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-237 · Became law POWER Act

To promote pro bono legal services as a critical way in which to empower survivors of domestic violence.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-236 · Became law NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act

To require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to disseminate guidance to help reduce small business cybersecurity risks, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 6414 · Became law Public Law 115-235

To amend title 23, United States Code, to extend the deadline for promulgation of regulations under the tribal transportation self-governance program.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-234 · Became law Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reauthorize user fee programs relating to new animal drugs and generic new animal drugs.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
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 115-231 · Became law Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act of 2018

To amend the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
Public Law 115-230 · Became law Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability Act of 2018

To restrict the department in which the Coast Guard is operating from implementing any rule requiring the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation security cards until after submission to Congress of the results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the transportation security card program.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-229 · Became law East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of East Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4528 · Became law Public Law 115-228

To make technical amendments to certain marine fish conservation statutes, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2850 · Became law Public Law 115-227

To amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-226 · Became law KIWI Act

To include New Zealand in the list of foreign states whose nationals are eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the Government of New Zealand.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
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
Public Law 115-224 · Became law Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act

To reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
S. 2692 · Became law Public Law 115-223

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4558 Broadway in New York, New York, as the “Stanley Michels Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 6042 · Became law Public Law 115-222

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to delay the reduction in Federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid personal care services furnished without an electronic visit verification system, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 2734 · Became law Public Law 115-221

To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the “George P. Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S. 931 · Became law Public Law 115-220

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4910 Brighton Boulevard in Denver, Colorado, as the “George Sakato Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
S. 490 · Became law Public Law 115-219

To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-218 · Became law Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018

To incentivize the hiring of United States workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 4840 · Became law Public Law 115-217

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 567 East Franklin Street in Oviedo, Florida, as the “Sergeant First Class Alwyn Crendall Cashe Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4722 · Became law Public Law 115-216

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 Market Street in Saugerties, New York, as the “Maurice D. Hinchey Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4685 · Became law Public Law 115-215

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 515 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, as the “First Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4646 · Became law Public Law 115-214

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1900 Corporate Drive in Birmingham, Alabama, as the “Lance Corporal Thomas E. Rivers, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4574 · Became law Public Law 115-213

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 108 West Schick Road in Bloomingdale, Illinois, as the “Bloomingdale Veterans Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4463 · Became law Public Law 115-212

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6 Doyers Street in New York, New York, as the “Mabel Lee Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
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. 4301 · Became law Public Law 115-210

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 Tom Hall Street in Fort Mill, South Carolina, as the “J. Elliott Williams Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: 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. 2673 · Became law Public Law 115-208

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 Broadway Street in Pekin, Illinois, as the “Lance Corporal Jordan S. Bastean Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1496 · Became law Public Law 115-207

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3585 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the “Marvin Gaye Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: 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. 2122 · Became law Public Law 115-205

To reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving Jennings Randolph Dam.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 951 · Became law Public Law 115-204

To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 447 · Became law Public Law 115-203

To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 446 · Became law Public Law 115-202

To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: 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 115-200 · Became law Swan Lake Hydroelectric Project Boundary Correction Act

To correct the Swan Lake hydroelectric project survey boundary and to provide for the conveyance of the remaining tract of land within the corrected survey boundary to the State of Alaska.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
S.J.Res. 60 · Became law Public Law 115-199

Providing for the reappointment of Barbara M. Barrett as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-198 · Became law North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017

To reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-197 · Became law American Innovation $1 Coin Act

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of American innovation and significant innovation and pioneering efforts of individuals or groups from each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories, to promote the importance of innovation in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United States territories, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: voice vote
Public Law 115-196 · Became law Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act

To establish a Federal Advisory Council to Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-195 · Became law All Circuit Review Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide permanent authority for judicial review of certain Merit Systems Protection Board decisions relating to whistleblowers, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 115-194 · Became law Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a voluntary registry to collect data on cancer incidence among firefighters.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
S. 2246 · Became law Public Law 115-193

To designate the health care center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Tallahassee, Florida, as the Sergeant Ernest I. “Boots” Thomas VA Clinic, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Suggest a tool

Suggest a tool

A person reads each idea before it appears. Links are not accepted. Do not include personal information.

See all ideas and vote