Saved history · 2021 and 2022

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.

362 laws
188 with a recorded vote · 174 passed with no recorded vote

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83,817 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. 8226 · Became law Public Law 117-312

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 236 Concord Exchange North in South Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the “Officer Leo Pavlak Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 8203 · Became law Public Law 117-311

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 651 Business Interstate Highway 35 North Suite 420 in New Braunfels, Texas, as the “Bob Krueger Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 8026 · Became law Public Law 117-310

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 825 West 65th Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the “Charles W. Lindberg Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 8025 · Became law Public Law 117-309

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 South 1st Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the “Martin Olav Sabo Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-308 · Became law Improving Access to the VA Home Loan Benefit Act of 2022

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to update the appraisal requirements for certain loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 7638 · Became law Public Law 117-307

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6000 South Florida Avenue in Lakeland, Florida, as the “U.S. Marine Corporal Ronald R. Payne Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 7519 · Became law Public Law 117-306

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2050 South Boulevard in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, as the “Dr. Ezra S. Parke Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 7518 · Became law Public Law 117-305

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 23200 John R Road in Hazel Park, Michigan, as the “Roy E. Dickens Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 7514 · Became law Public Law 117-304

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 345 South Main Street in Butler, Pennsylvania, as the “Andrew Gomer Williams Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-303 · Became law MST Claims Coordination Act

To improve coordination between the Veterans Health Administration and the Veterans Benefits Administration with respect to claims for compensation arising from military sexual trauma, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 417–0Senate: without objection
Public Law 117-302 · Became law SVAC Act of 2022

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to obtain an independent cybersecurity assessment of information systems of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-301 · Became law Human Trafficking Prevention Act of 2022

To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to seek to provide for the posting of contact information of the national human trafficking hotline in the restrooms of each aircraft, airport, over-the-road bus, bus station, passenger train, and passenger railroad station operating within the United States, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-300 · Became law Dignity for MST Survivors Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve hearings before the Board of Veterans' Appeals regarding claims involving military sexual trauma.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 405–12Senate: without objection
H.R. 6917 · Became law Public Law 117-299

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 East Congress Parkway in Crystal Lake, Illinois, as the “Ryan J. Cummings Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 6630 · Became law Public Law 117-298

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1400 N Kraemer Blvd. in Placentia, California, as the “PFC Jang Ho Kim Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-297 · Became law Veterans Eligible to Transfer School (VETS) Credit Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the method by which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines the effects of a closure or disapproval of an educational institution on individuals who do not transfer credits from such institution.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 412–1Senate: without objection
Public Law 117-296 · Became law Red River National Wildlife Refuge Boundary Modification Act

To amend the Red River National Wildlife Refuge Act to modify the boundary of the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 6386 · Became law Public Law 117-295

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 West Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, as the “Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 404–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 6267 · Became law Public Law 117-294

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 15 Chestnut Street in Suffern, New York, as the “Sergeant Gerald T. `Jerry' Donnellan Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 6221 · Became law Public Law 117-293

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 155 Main Avenue West in Winsted, Minnesota, as the “James A. Rogers Jr. Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 6220 · Became law Public Law 117-292

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 3rd Avenue Northwest in Perham, Minnesota, as the “Charles P. Nord Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 6218 · Became law Public Law 117-291

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 317 Blattner Drive in Avon, Minnesota, as the “W.O.C. Kort Miller Plantenberg Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 6080 · Became law Public Law 117-290

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5420 Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the “Ronald A. Robinson Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 6064 · Became law Public Law 117-289

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a review of examinations, furnished by the Secretary, to individuals who submit claims to the Secretary for compensation under chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, for mental and physical conditions linked to military sexual trauma.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 414–2Senate: without objection
H.R. 6042 · Became law Public Law 117-288

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 213 William Hilton Parkway in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, as the “Caesar H. Wright Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-287 · Became law Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Reauthorization Act of 2022

To reauthorize the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 1990, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5961 · Became law Public Law 117-286

To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 413–3Senate: without objection
H.R. 5952 · Became law Public Law 117-285

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 123 East Main Street, in Vergas, Minnesota, as the “Jon Glawe Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5943 · Became law Public Law 117-284

To designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Greenville, South Carolina, as the “Lance Corporal Dana Cornell Darnell VA Clinic”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 5900 · Became law Public Law 117-283

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2016 East 1st Street in Los Angeles, California, as the “Marine Corps Reserve PVT Jacob Cruz Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 401–1Senate: without objection
H.R. 5865 · Became law Public Law 117-282

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4110 Bluebonnet Drive in Stafford, Texas, as the “Leonard Scarcella Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 5794 · Became law Public Law 117-281

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 850 Walnut Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as the “First Sergeant Leonard A. Funk, Jr. Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5659 · Became law Public Law 117-280

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1961 North C Street in Oxnard, California, as the “John R. Hatcher III Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 348–63Senate: without objection
H.R. 5650 · Became law Public Law 117-279

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16605 East Avenue of the Fountains in Fountain Hills, Arizona, as the “Dr. C.T. Wright Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 5349 · Became law Public Law 117-278

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1550 State Road S-38-211 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, as the “J.I. Washington Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
H.R. 5271 · Became law Public Law 117-277

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as the “Thelma Harper Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 330–81Senate: without objection
H.R. 4899 · Became law Public Law 117-276

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 Broadway Street West, in Akeley, Minnesota, as the “Neal Kenneth Todd Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-275 · Became law Old Pascua Community Land Acquisition Act

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain land in Pima County, Arizona, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 375–45Senate: without objection
H.R. 4622 · Became law Public Law 117-274

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 226 North Main Street in Roseville, Ohio, as the “Ronald E. Rosser Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-273 · Became law War Crimes Rewards Expansion Act

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide for rewards for the arrest or conviction of certain foreign nationals who have committed genocide or war crimes, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 412–9Senate: without objection
Public Law 117-272 · Became law 21st Century President Act

To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President's spouse.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-271 · Became law VA Peer Support Enhancement for MST Survivors Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for peer support specialists for claimants who are survivors of military sexual trauma, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 420–0Senate: without objection
H.R. 2473 · Became law Public Law 117-270

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem, Ohio, as the “Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 2472 · Became law Public Law 117-269

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 82422 Cadiz Jewett Road in Cadiz, Ohio, as the “John Armor Bingham Post Office”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 1095 · Became law Public Law 117-268

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 South Willowbrook Avenue in Compton, California, as the “PFC James Anderson, Jr., Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
Public Law 117-267 · Became law Blackwater Trading Post Land Transfer Act

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain land located in Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Community, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: Not checked yetSenate: voice vote
Public Law 117-266 · Became law Don Young Alaska Native Health Care Land Transfers Act of 2022

To provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Tanana Tribal Council located in Tanana, Alaska, the conveyance of certain property to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, Alaska, and the conveyance of certain property to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium located in Anchorage, Alaska, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House: voice voteSenate: without objection
H.R. 203 · Became law Public Law 117-265

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4020 Broadway Street in Houston, Texas, as the “Benny C. Martinez Post Office Building”.

Plain-language account: Not started
House 386–35Senate: without objection
Public Law 117-264 · Became law Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, and for other purposes.

Plain-language account: Not started
House adopted H.Res. 1531, 215–206Senate: voice vote
Public Law 117-263 · Became law James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 adopted H.Res. 1512, 350–80Senate 83–11
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