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Volume 129

2015 · 114th Congress · session 1 · 115 public laws.

  1. Public Law 114–1Public Law 114–1: To extend the termination date of the Terrorism Insurance Program established under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, and for other purposes.Jan 12, 2015
  2. Public Law 114–2Public Law 114–2: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for the conduct of annual evaluations of mental health care and suicide prevention programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.Feb 12, 2015
  3. Public Law 114–3Public Law 114–3: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Feb 27, 2015
  4. Public Law 114–4Public Law 114–4: Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 2015
  5. Public Law 114–5Public Law 114–5: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Mar 7, 2015
  6. Public Law 114–6Public Law 114–6: To make administrative and technical corrections to the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.Mar 20, 2015
  7. Public Law 114–7Public Law 114–7: To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of the families of New York Police Department Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, and for other purposes.Apr 1, 2015
  8. Public Law 114–8Public Law 114–8: To designate the Federal building located at 2030 Southwest 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida, as the “Benjamin P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Building”.Apr 7, 2015
  9. Public Law 114–9Public Law 114–9: Providing for the reappointment of David M. Rubenstein as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.Apr 7, 2015
  10. Public Law 114–10Public Law 114–10: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.Apr 16, 2015
  11. Public Law 114–11Public Law 114–11: To promote energy efficiency.Apr 30, 2015
  12. Public Law 114–12Public Law 114–12: To encourage, enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the United States in order to disseminate information when a law enforcement officer is seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, is missing in connection with the officer’s official duties, or an imminent and credible threat that an individual intends to cause the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer is received, and for other purposes.May 19, 2015
  13. Public Law 114–13Public Law 114–13: To clarify the effective date of certain provisions of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014, and for other purposes.May 19, 2015
  14. Public Law 114–14Public Law 114–14: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain compensation received by public safety officers and their dependents from gross income.May 22, 2015
  15. Public Law 114–15Public Law 114–15: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 820 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island, as the “Sister Ann Keefe Post Office”.May 22, 2015
  16. Public Law 114–16Public Law 114–16: To designate the United States Customs and Border Protection Port of Entry located at First Street and Pan American Avenue in Douglas, Arizona, as the “Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry”.May 22, 2015
  17. Public Law 114–17Public Law 114–17: To provide for congressional review and oversight of agreements relating to Iran’s nuclear program, and for other purposes.May 22, 2015
  18. Public Law 114–18Public Law 114–18: To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to improve the Act.May 22, 2015
  19. Public Law 114–19Public Law 114–19: To extend the authorization for the replacement of the existing Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, to make certain improvements in the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014, and for other purposes.May 22, 2015
  20. Public Law 114–20Public Law 114–20: To designate the United States courthouse located at 700 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the “Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse”.May 29, 2015
  21. Public Law 114–21Public Law 114–21: To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.May 29, 2015
  22. Public Law 114–22Public Law 114–22: To provide justice for the victims of trafficking.May 29, 2015
  23. Public Law 114–23Public Law 114–23: To reform the authorities of the Federal Government to require the production of certain business records, conduct electronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap and trace devices, and use other forms of information gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal purposes, and for other purposes.Jun 2, 2015
  24. Public Law 114–24Public Law 114–24: To authorize the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to provide assistance to support the rights of women and girls in developing countries, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 2015
  25. Public Law 114–25Public Law 114–25: To extend the authorization to carry out the replacement of the existing medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Denver, Colorado, to authorize transfers of amounts to carry out the replacement of such medical center, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 2015
  26. Public Law 114–26Public Law 114–26: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 2015
  27. Public Law 114–27Public Law 114–27: To extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, the preferential duty treatment program for Haiti, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 2015
  28. Public Law 114–28Public Law 114–28: To revoke the charter of incorporation of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at the request of that tribe, and for other purposes.Jul 6, 2015
  29. Public Law 114–29Public Law 114–29: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Under Secretary for Management of the Department of Homeland Security to take administrative action to achieve and maintain interoperable communications capabilities among the components of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.Jul 6, 2015
  30. Public Law 114–30Public Law 114–30: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the centennial of Boys Town, and for other purposes.Jul 6, 2015
  31. Public Law 114–31Public Law 114–31: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue, upon request, veteran identification cards to certain veterans.Jul 20, 2015
  32. Public Law 114–32Public Law 114–32: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7050 Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the “Sergeant First Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office”.Jul 20, 2015
  33. Public Law 114–33Public Law 114–33: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 141 Paloma Drive in Floresville, Texas, as the “Floresville Veterans Post Office Building”.Jul 20, 2015
  34. Public Law 114–34Public Law 114–34: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the “Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office”.Jul 20, 2015
  35. Public Law 114–35Public Law 114–35: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 442 East 167th Street in Bronx, New York, as the “Herman Badillo Post Office Building”.Jul 20, 2015
  36. Public Law 114–36Public Law 114–36: To amend the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude certain cotton futures contracts from coverage under such Act.Jul 20, 2015
  37. Public Law 114–37Public Law 114–37: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the “James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building”.Jul 20, 2015
  38. Public Law 114–38Public Law 114–38: To amend the Small Business Act to increase access to capital for veteran entrepreneurs, to help create jobs, and for other purposes.Jul 28, 2015
  39. Public Law 114–39Public Law 114–39: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase in the limit on the length of an agreement under the Medicare independence at home medical practice demonstration program.Jul 30, 2015
  40. Public Law 114–40Public Law 114–40: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide Medicare beneficiary access to eye tracking accessories for speech generating devices and to remove the rental cap for durable medical equipment under the Medicare Program with respect to speech generating devices.Jul 30, 2015
  41. Public Law 114–41Public Law 114–41: To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund, to provide resource flexibility to the Department of Veterans Affairs for health care services, and for other purposes.Jul 31, 2015
  42. Public Law 114–42Public Law 114–42: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require hospitals to provide certain notifications to individuals classified by such hospitals under observation status rather than admitted as inpatients of such hospitals.Aug 6, 2015
  43. Public Law 114–43Public Law 114–43: To reduce duplication of information technology at the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.Aug 6, 2015
  44. Public Law 114–44Public Law 114–44: To improve and reauthorize provisions relating to the application of the antitrust laws to the award of need-based educational aid.Aug 6, 2015
  45. Public Law 114–45Public Law 114–45: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for the assessment and management of the risk of algal toxins in drinking water, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 2015
  46. Public Law 114–46Public Law 114–46: To establish certain wilderness areas in central Idaho and to authorize various land conveyances involving National Forest System land and Bureau of Land Management land in central Idaho, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 2015
  47. Public Law 114–47Public Law 114–47: To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide a pathway for temporary seasonal employees in Federal land management agencies to compete for vacant permanent positions under internal merit promotion procedures, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 2015
  48. Public Law 114–48Public Law 114–48: To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 83 Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, as the “J. Waties Waring Judicial Center”.Aug 7, 2015
  49. Public Law 114–49Public Law 114–49: To designate the “PFC Milton A. Lee Medal of Honor Memorial Highway” in the State of Texas.Aug 7, 2015
  50. Public Law 114–50Public Law 114–50: To improve intergovernmental planning for and communication during security incidents at domestic airports, and for other purposes.Sep 24, 2015
  51. Public Law 114–51Public Law 114–51: To allow manufacturers to meet warranty and labeling requirements for consumer products by displaying the terms of warranties on Internet websites, and for other purposes.Sep 24, 2015
  52. Public Law 114–52Public Law 114–52: To reauthorize the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  53. Public Law 114–53Public Law 114–53: To require the Transportation Security Administration to conform to existing Federal law and regulations regarding criminal investigator positions, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  54. Public Law 114–54Public Law 114–54: To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the livestock mandatory price reporting requirements, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  55. Public Law 114–55Public Law 114–55: To amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  56. Public Law 114–56Public Law 114–56: To provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation located in Bethel, Alaska.Sep 30, 2015
  57. Public Law 114–57Public Law 114–57: To make technical corrections to the Navajo water rights settlement in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  58. Public Law 114–58Public Law 114–58: To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.Sep 30, 2015
  59. Public Law 114–59Public Law 114–59: To define STEM education to include computer science, and to support existing STEM education programs at the National Science Foundation.Oct 7, 2015
  60. Public Law 114–60Public Law 114–60: To amend title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to revise the definition of small employer.Oct 7, 2015
  61. Public Law 114–61Public Law 114–61: To amend the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 to reduce a scheduled increase in the minimum wage applicable to American Samoa.Oct 7, 2015
  62. Public Law 114–62Public Law 114–62: To amend chapter 21 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that fathers of certain permanently disabled or deceased veterans shall be included with mothers of such veterans as preference eligibles for treatment in the civil service.Oct 7, 2015
  63. Public Law 114–63Public Law 114–63: To permanently allow an exclusion under the Supplemental Security Income program and the Medicaid program for compensation provided to individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.Oct 7, 2015
  64. Public Law 114–64Public Law 114–64: To designate the United States courthouse located at 200 NW 4th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as the William J. Holloway, Jr. United States Courthouse.Oct 7, 2015
  65. Public Law 114–65Public Law 114–65: To reduce the operation and maintenance costs associated with the Federal fleet by encouraging the use of remanufactured parts, and for other purposes.Oct 7, 2015
  66. Public Law 114–66Public Law 114–66: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the “Staff Sergeant Joseph D’Augustine Post Office Building”.Oct 7, 2015
  67. Public Law 114–67Public Law 114–67: To designate the Federal building located at 617 Walnut Street in Helena, Arkansas, as the “Jacob Trieber Federal Building, United States Post Office, and United States Court House”.Oct 7, 2015
  68. Public Law 114–68Public Law 114–68: To actively recruit members of the Armed Forces who are separating from military service to serve as Customs and Border Protection officers.Oct 16, 2015
  69. Public Law 114–69Public Law 114–69: To require the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 parcels of Federal land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico.Oct 16, 2015
  70. Public Law 114–70Public Law 114–70: To amend the section 221 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide relief for adoptive families from immigrant visa fees in certain situations.Oct 16, 2015
  71. Public Law 114–71Public Law 114–71: To reauthorize the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and for other purposes.Oct 16, 2015
  72. Public Law 114–72Public Law 114–72: To extend by 15 years the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to conduct the quarterly financial report program.Oct 22, 2015
  73. Public Law 114–73Public Law 114–73: To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.Oct 29, 2015
  74. Public Law 114–74Public Law 114–74: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations.Nov 2, 2015
  75. Public Law 114–75Public Law 114–75: To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide leave to any new Federal employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disability, and for other purposes.Nov 5, 2015
  76. Public Law 114–76Public Law 114–76: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16105 Swingley Ridge Road in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the “Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher Post Office”.Nov 5, 2015
  77. Public Law 114–77Public Law 114–77: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 55 Grasso Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri, as the “Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office”.Nov 5, 2015
  78. Public Law 114–78Public Law 114–78: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11662 Gravois Road in St. Louis, Missouri, as the “Lt. Daniel P. Riordan Post Office”.Nov 5, 2015
  79. Public Law 114–79Public Law 114–79: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 55 South Pioneer Boulevard in Springboro, Ohio, as the “Richard ‘Dick’ Chenault Post Office Building”.Nov 5, 2015
  80. Public Law 114–80Public Law 114–80: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to establish a social media working group, and for other purposes.Nov 5, 2015
  81. Public Law 114–81Public Law 114–81: To strengthen enforcement mechanisms to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, to amend the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 to implement the Antigua Convention, and for other purposes.Nov 5, 2015
  82. Public Law 114–82Public Law 114–82: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 90 Cornell Street in Kingston, New York, as the “Staff Sergeant Robert H. Dietz Post Office Building”.Nov 5, 2015
  83. Public Law 114–83Public Law 114–83: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 206 West Commercial Street in East Rochester, New York, as the “Officer Daryl R. Pierson Memorial Post Office Building”.Nov 5, 2015
  84. Public Law 114–84Public Law 114–84: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4500 SE 28th Street, Del City, Oklahoma, as the James Robert Kalsu Post Office Building.Nov 5, 2015
  85. Public Law 114–85Public Law 114–85: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify waiver authority regarding programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE programs).Nov 5, 2015
  86. Public Law 114–86Public Law 114–86: To establish a 10-year term for the service of the Librarian of Congress.Nov 5, 2015
  87. Public Law 114–87Public Law 114–87: To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.Nov 20, 2015
  88. Public Law 114–88Public Law 114–88: To improve the disaster assistance programs of the Small Business Administration.Nov 25, 2015
  89. Public Law 114–89Public Law 114–89: To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to drug scheduling recommendations by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and with respect to registration of manufacturers and distributors seeking to conduct clinical testing.Nov 25, 2015
  90. Public Law 114–90Public Law 114–90: To facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry by encouraging private sector investment and creating more stable and predictable regulatory conditions, and for other purposes.Nov 25, 2015
  91. Public Law 114–91Public Law 114–91: To address problems related to prenatal opioid use.Nov 25, 2015
  92. Public Law 114–92Public Law 114–92: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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.Nov 25, 2015
  93. Public Law 114–93Public Law 114–93: To suspend the current compensation packages for the chief executive officers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and for other purposes.Nov 25, 2015
  94. Public Law 114–94Public Law 114–94: To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.Dec 4, 2015
  95. Public Law 114–95Public Law 114–95: To reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves.Dec 10, 2015
  96. Public Law 114–96Public Law 114–96: Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016Dec 11, 2015
  97. Public Law 114–97Public Law 114–97: To extend and expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.Dec 11, 2015
  98. Public Law 114–98Public Law 114–98: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize technical assistance to small public water systems, and for other purposes.Dec 11, 2015
  99. Public Law 114–99Public Law 114–99: To amend title 39, United States Code, to extend the authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to raise funds for breast cancer research, and for other purposes.Dec 11, 2015
  100. Public Law 114–100Public Law 114–100: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2016, and for other purposes.Dec 16, 2015
  101. Public Law 114–101Public Law 114–101: To redesignate the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, located in the State of Washington, as the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, to establish the Medicine Creek Treaty National Memorial within the wildlife refuge, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  102. Public Law 114–102Public Law 114–102: To prevent Hizballah and associated entities from gaining access to international financial and other institutions, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  103. Public Law 114–103Public Law 114–103: To designate the arboretum at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, as the “Phyllis E. Galanti Arboretum”.Dec 18, 2015
  104. Public Law 114–104Public Law 114–104: To reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  105. Public Law 114–105Public Law 114–105: To extend temporarily the Federal Perkins Loan program, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  106. Public Law 114–106Public Law 114–106: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the annual comment period for payment rates under Medicare Advantage.Dec 18, 2015
  107. Public Law 114–107Public Law 114–107: To exempt for an additional 4-year period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 90 days.Dec 18, 2015
  108. Public Law 114–108Public Law 114–108: Appointing the day for the convening of the second session of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress.Dec 18, 2015
  109. Public Law 114–109Public Law 114–109: To provide access to and use of information by Federal agencies in order to reduce improper payments, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  110. Public Law 114–110Public Law 114–110: To establish the Surface Transportation Board as an independent establishment, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  111. Public Law 114–111Public Law 114–111: To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting facilities to receive certain disaster assistance, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  112. Public Law 114–112Public Law 114–112: To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.Dec 18, 2015
  113. Public Law 114–113Public Law 114–113: Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 2015
  114. Public Law 114–114Public Law 114–114: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the manufacture and introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of rinse-off cosmetics containing intentionally-added plastic microbeads.Dec 28, 2015
  115. Public Law 114–115Public Law 114–115: To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to improve payments for complex rehabilitation technology and certain radiation therapy services, to ensure flexibility in applying the hardship exception for meaningful use for the 2015 EHR reporting period for 2017 payment adjustments, and for other purposes.Dec 28, 2015