Laws of the 116th Congress
The 344 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2019 to January 3, 2021, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
29,651 individual votes saved for this Congress.
All laws, newest first
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 authorize the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate to delegate authority to approve payroll and personnel actions.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo strengthen the participation of elected national legislators in the activities of the Organization of American States and reaffirm United States support for Organization of American States human rights and anti-corruption initiatives, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide regulatory relief to charitable organizations that provide housing assistance, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site as the “Jimmy Carter National Historical Park”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require individuals fishing for Gulf reef fish to use certain descending devices, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support multidisciplinary research on the science of suicide, and to advance the knowledge and understanding of issues that may be associated with several aspects of suicide including intrinsic and extrinsic factors related to areas such as wellbeing, resilience, and vulnerability.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo expand the number of scholarships available to Pakistani women under the Merit and Needs-Based Scholarship Program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the sites associated with the life and legacy of the noted American philanthropist and business executive Julius Rosenwald, with a special focus on the Rosenwald Schools, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support research on opioid addiction, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to prescribe the manner in which programs of the agency are identified overseas, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 40, United States Code, to require certain prospectuses for public buildings to be made publicly available, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of State to make direct loans under section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Manhattan Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the “Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care System”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue certain circulating collectible coins, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Yucca House National Monument.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo rename the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Nebraska, as the Homestead National Historical Park.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to monitor and combat anti-Semitism globally, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo ensure funding of the United States trustees, extend temporary bankruptcy judgeships, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title XXIX of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program under such title relating to lifespan respite care.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a national program to identify and reduce losses from landslide hazards, to establish a national 3D Elevation Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4755 Southeast Dixie Highway in Port Salerno, Florida, as the “Joseph Bullock Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider certain recognized security practices of covered entities and business associates when making certain determinations, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3519 East Walnut Street in Pearland, Texas, as the “Tom Reid Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 South 16th Street in Clarinda, Iowa, as the “Jessie Field Shambaugh Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo extend the authority for the establishment by the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation of a commemorative work to commemorate the mission of the Peace Corps and the ideals on which the Peace Corps was founded, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the “Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo allow acceleration certificates awarded under the Patents for Humanity Program to be transferable.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo provide flexibility for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in caring for homeless veterans during a covered public health emergency, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a retraining assistance program for unemployed veterans, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 James Street in Reidsville, Georgia, as the “Senator Jack Hill Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo deem an urban Indian organization and employees thereof to be a part of the Public Health Service for the purposes of certain claims for personal injury, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 509 Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama, as the “William `Jack' Jackson Edwards III Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to clarify the requirement of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to reimburse the Indian Health Service for certain health care services.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1585 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro, North Carolina, as the “J. Howard Coble Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the criminalization of female genital mutilation, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14955 West Bell Road in Surprise, Arizona, as the “Marc Lee Memorial Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4150 Chicago Avenue in Riverside, California, as the “Woodie Rucker- Hughes Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 Delaware Avenue, Suite 1, in Wilmington, Delaware, as the “Mary Ann Shadd Cary Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo redesignate the Weir Farm National Historic Site in the State of Connecticut as the “Weir Farm National Historical Park”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to give authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to destroy counterfeit devices.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 305 Northwest 5th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as the “Clara Luper Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to correct a land ownership error within the boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modify the boundary of the Rocky Mountain National Park, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 599 East Genesse Street in Fayetteville, New York, as the “George H. Bacel Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan to increase to 100 percent the rates of scanning of commercial and passenger vehicles and freight rail entering the United States at land ports of entry along the border using large-scale, non-intrusive inspection systems to enhance border security, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 476 East Main Street in Galesburg, Illinois, as the “Senior Airman Daniel Miller Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Youngstown, Ohio, as the “Carl Nunziato VA Clinic”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 Walnut Street in Bordentown, New Jersey, as the “Clara Barton Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Gilbert, Arizona, as the “Staff Sergeant Alexander W. Conrad Veterans Affairs Health Care Clinic”.
Plain-language account: Not started