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.
All laws
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 reauthorize and rename the position of Whistleblower Ombudsman to be the Whistleblower Protection Coordinator.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo authorize, direct, facilitate, and expedite the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal land, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Small Business Act to strengthen the Office of Credit Risk Management within the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for requirements relating to the reassignment of Department of Veterans Affairs senior executive employees.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase the amount of leverage made available to small business investment companies.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, as the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Huntington, West Virginia, as the Hershel “Woody” Williams VA Medical Center.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo redesignate certain clinics of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Montana.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo maximize discovery, and accelerate development and availability, of promising childhood cancer treatments, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo allow the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, the Klamath Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribes to lease or transfer certain lands.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, and construct a central parking facility on National Zoological Park property in the District of Columbia.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo 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 startedTo 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 startedTo promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and enhance consumer protections, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau to submit a report on the backlog of personnel security clearance investigations, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedProviding 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 startedTo require reporting on acts of certain foreign countries on Holocaust era assets and related issues.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize Pacific Historic Parks to establish a commemorative display to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate a National Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo enhance the transparency and accelerate the impact of programs under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the PROTECT Act to make Indian tribes eligible for AMBER Alert grants.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act to improve and strengthen the representative payment program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo establish the Kennedy-King National Commemorative Site in the State of Indiana, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 621 Kansas Avenue in Atchison, Kansas, as the “Amelia Earhart Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo deem the compliance date for amended energy conservation standards for ceiling fan light kits to be January 21, 2020, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of adult day health care services for veterans.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of painting portraits of officers and employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo rename the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center in Fargo, North Dakota, as the Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 123 Bridgeton Pike in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, as the “James C. `Billy' Johnson Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1415 West Oak Street, in Kissimmee, Florida, as the “Borinqueneers Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Mathe Avenue in Interlachen, Florida, as the “Robert H. Jenkins, Jr. Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300 Main Street in Belmar, New Jersey, as the “Dr. Walter S. McAfee Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1100 Kings Road in Jacksonville, Florida, as the “Rutledge Pearson Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 North Main Street in Spring Lake, North Carolina, as the “Howard B. Pate, Jr. Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1114 North 2nd Street in Chillicothe, Illinois, as the “Sr. Chief Ryan Owens Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 207 Glenside Avenue in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, as the “Staff Sergeant Peter Taub Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30 East Somerset Street in Raritan, New Jersey, as the “Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo 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 startedTo 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 startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 259 Nassau Street, Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the “Dr. John F. Nash, Jr. Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not started