Saved history · 2019 and 2020

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.

344 laws
67 with a recorded vote · 277 passed with no recorded voteConfirmed from the official record

29,651 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. 5954 · Became law Public Law 116-244

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 108 West Maple Street in Holly, Michigan, as the “Holly Veterans Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 5317 · Became law Public Law 116-243

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 315 Addicks Howell Road in Houston, Texas, as the “Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4971 · Became law Public Law 116-242

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15 East Market Street in Leesburg, Virginia, as the “Norman Duncan Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4875 · Became law Public Law 116-241

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2201 E. Maple Street in North Canton, Ohio, as the “Lance Cpl. Stacy `Annie' Dryden Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4785 · Became law Public Law 116-240

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the “Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4725 · Became law Public Law 116-239

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8585 Criterion Drive in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the “Chaplain (Capt.) Dale Goetz Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 4672 · Became law Public Law 116-238

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 21701 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino, California, as the “Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew G. Axelson Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4279 · Became law Public Law 116-237

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 445 Main Street in Laceyville, Pennsylvania, as the “Melinda Gene Piccotti Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4200 · Became law Public Law 116-236

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 321 South 1st Street in Montrose, Colorado, as the “Sergeant David Kinterknecht Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4034 · Became law Public Law 116-235

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 602 Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, Washington, as the “John Henry Turpin Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3870 · Became law Public Law 116-234

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 511 West 165th Street in New York, New York, as the “Normandia Maldonado Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3847 · Became law Public Law 116-233

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 117 West Poythress Street in Hopewell, Virginia, as the “Reverend Curtis West Harris Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3680 · Became law Public Law 116-232

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 415 North Main Street in Henning, Tennessee, as the “Paula Croom Robinson and Judy Spray Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 3275 · Became law Public Law 116-231

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 Wetmore Avenue in Grand River, Ohio, as the “Lance Corporal Andy `Ace' Nowacki Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3005 · Became law Public Law 116-230

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13308 Midland Road in Poway, California, as the “Ray Chavez Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 2969 · Became law Public Law 116-229

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1401 1st Street North in Winter Haven, Florida, as the “Althea Margaret Daily Mills Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2454 · Became law Public Law 116-228

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 123 East Sharpfish Street in Rosebud, South Dakota, as the “Ben Reifel Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 2246 · Became law Public Law 116-227

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 West Cherokee Street in Brookhaven, Mississippi, as the “Deputy Donald William Durr, Corporal Zach Moak, and Patrolman James White Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-226 · Became law Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2021, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 329–65Senate: voice vote
Public Law 116-225 · Became law Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2021, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 320–60Senate: voice vote
Public Law 116-224 · Became law Save Our Seas 2.0 Act

To improve efforts to combat marine debris, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-223 · Became law Digital Coast Act

To require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a constituent-driven program to provide a digital information platform capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices and to support collection of priority coastal geospatial data to inform and improve local, State, regional, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-222 · Became law Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

To amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to require certain issuers to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission information regarding foreign jurisdictions that prevent the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board from performing inspections under that Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-221 · Became law National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2020

To reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
H.R. 5307 · Became law Public Law 116-220

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 115 Nicol Avenue in Thomasville, Alabama, as the “Postmaster Robert Ingram Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 5062 · Became law Public Law 116-219

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9930 Conroy Windermere Road in Windermere, Florida, as the “Officer Robert German Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4975 · Became law Public Law 116-218

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1201 Sycamore Square Drive in Midlothian, Virginia, as the “Dorothy Braden Bruce Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 473 · Became law Public Law 116-217

To authorize the Every Word We Utter Monument to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-216 · Became law United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020

To reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: voice vote
Public Law 116-215 · Became law Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021, and Other Extensions Act

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2021, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 343–67Senate: voice vote
Public Law 116-214 · Became law Veterans COMPACT Act of 2020

To make certain improvements relating to the transition of individuals to services from the Department of Veterans Affairs, suicide prevention for veterans, and care and services for women veterans, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-213 · Became law Department of Veterans Affairs Website Accessibility Act of 2019

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on the accessibility of websites of the Department of Veterans Affairs to individuals with disabilities, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-212 · Became law Improving Safety and Security for Veterans Act of 2019

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress reports on patient safety and quality of care at medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 394–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 116-211 · Became law Impact Aid Coronavirus Relief Act

To provide that, due to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, applications for impact aid funding for fiscal year 2022 may use certain data submitted in the fiscal year 2021 application.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
H.R. 8276 · Became law Public Law 116-210

To authorize the President to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Alwyn C. Cashe for acts of valor during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-209 · Became law Negro Leagues Baseball Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint a coin in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Negro Leagues baseball.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: without objectionSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-208 · Became law Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Greg LeMond, in recognition of his service to the Nation as an athlete, activist, role model, and community leader.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-207 · Became law IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020

To establish minimum security standards for Internet of Things devices owned or controlled by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-206 · Became law Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019

To impose criminal sanctions on certain persons involved in international doping fraud conspiracies, to provide restitution for victims of such conspiracies, and to require sharing of information with the United States Anti-Doping Agency to assist its fight against doping, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-205 · Became law Wounded Veterans Recreation Act

To amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a lifetime National Recreational Pass for any veteran with a service-connected disability.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 5384 · Became law Public Law 116-204

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Crosby Street in Mansfield, Louisiana, as the “Dr. C.O. Simpkins, Sr., Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5037 · Became law Public Law 116-203

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3703 North Main Street in Farmville, North Carolina, as the “Walter B. Jones, Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4981 · Became law Public Law 116-202

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2505 Derita Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the “Julius L. Chambers Civil Rights Memorial Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4794 · Became law Public Law 116-201

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8320 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as the “Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 4734 · Became law Public Law 116-200

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 171 South Maple Street in Dana, Indiana, as the “Ernest `Ernie' T. Pyle Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3329 · Became law Public Law 116-199

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5186 Benito Street in Montclair, California, as the “Paul Eaton Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3317 · Became law Public Law 116-198

To permit the Scipio A. Jones Post Office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to accept and display a portrait of Scipio A. Jones, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 3207 · Became law Public Law 116-197

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 114 Mill Street in Hookstown, Pennsylvania, as the “Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1833 · Became law Public Law 116-196

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Tulip Avenue in Floral Park, New York, as the “Lieutenant Michael R. Davidson Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 116-195 · Became law Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019

To award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the women in the United States who joined the workforce during World War II, providing the aircraft, vehicles, weaponry, ammunition and other material to win the war, that were referred to as “Rosie the Riveter”, in recognition of their contributions to the United States and the inspiration they have provided to ensuing generations.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
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