Laws of the 117th Congress
The 362 public laws in our saved record for the Congress that met from January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2023, with the House and Senate tallies from the official vote files.
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83,817 individual votes saved for this Congress.
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To amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve the program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend terminal lakes assistance.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include aliens passing in transit through the United States to board a vessel on which the alien will perform ship-to-ship liquid cargo transfer operations within a class of nonimmigrant aliens, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate Mount Young in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Anchorage, Alaska, as the “Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System”, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the State offices of rural health program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to address green burial sections in national cemeteries, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, to require appropriate use of multidisciplinary teams for investigations of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo take certain Federal land located in Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5302 Galveston Road in Houston, Texas, as the “Vanessa Guillen Post Office Building”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend section 2441 of title 18, United States Code, to broaden the scope of individuals subject to prosecution for war crimes.
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 approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Federal Communications Commission to issue a rule providing that certain low power television stations may be accorded primary status as Class A television licensees, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Colorado River Indian Tribes to enter into lease or exchange agreements and storage agreements relating to water of the Colorado River allocated to the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to rehabilitation innovation centers under the Medicare program.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure equal treatment of athletes, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to ensure just and reasonable charges for telephone and advanced communications services in correctional and detention facilities.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Native American Languages Act to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons that have engaged in significant theft of trade secrets of United States persons, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a Native American language resource center in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Languages Act.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo award posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make permanent certain educational assistance benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the case of changes to courses of education by reason of emergency situations, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo modify eligibility requirements for certain hazard mitigation assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating certain land as the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo study the incidence of fatal and non-fatal assaults in TNC and for-hire vehicles in order to enhance safety and save lives.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo take certain lands in California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedMaking consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, and for providing emergency assistance for the situation in Ukraine, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo increase accessibility to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to remove the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the Capitol and to obtain a bust of Thurgood Marshall for installation in the Capitol or on the Capitol Grounds, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for training on alternatives to use of force, de-escalation, and mental and behavioral health and suicidal crises.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo prevent organizational conflicts of interest in Federal acquisition, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo reauthorize the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a Department of Homeland Security Center for Countering Human Trafficking, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to address deficiencies and make necessary upgrades to the security camera and radio systems of the Bureau of Prisons to ensure the health and safety of employees and inmates.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo award a Congressional Gold Medal to the former hostages of the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981, highlighting their resilience throughout the unprecedented ordeal that they lived through and the national unity it produced, marking 4 decades since their 444 days in captivity, and recognizing their sacrifice to the United States.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend section 21 of the Small Business Act to require cyber certification for small business development center counselors, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo authorize the Director of the United States Geological Survey to establish a regional program to assess, monitor, and benefit the hydrology of saline lakes in the Great Basin and the migratory birds and other wildlife dependent on those habitats, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo repeal certain obsolete laws relating to Indians.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo establish a national integrated flood information system within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo make a technical amendment to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6401 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego, California, as the “Susan A. Davis Post Office”.
Plain-language account: Not startedTo amend title 38, United States Code, to shorten the timeframe for designation of benefits under Department of Veterans Affairs life insurance programs, to improve the treatment of undisbursed life insurance benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.
Plain-language account: Not started