Every law Congress has passed

1,721 laws of the 85th Congress, 1957–1959

1. An Act To extend title VII of the Public Health Service Act (relating to health research facilities) for three years, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-777 · 72 Stat. 933 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

2. An Act To provide airmail and special delivery postage stamps for Members of the House of Representatives on the basis of regular sessions of Congress, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-778 · 72 Stat. 934 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

3. An Act To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended.

   Public Law 85-779 · 72 Stat. 934 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

4. An Act Relating to minerals on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 85-780 · 72 Stat. 935 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

5. An Act To amend section 201 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, to authorize the interchange of inspection services between executive agencies, and the furnishing of such services by one executive agency to another, without reimbursement or transfer of funds.

   Public Law 85-781 · 72 Stat. 936 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

6. An Act To amend the Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1937 to provide that an additional aid and attendance allowance of $150 per month shall be paid to certain severely service-connected disabled veterans during periods in which they are not hospitalized at Government expense.

   Public Law 85-782 · 72 Stat. 936 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

7. Joint Resolution To approve the report of the Department of the Interior on Red Willow Dam and Reservoir in Nebraska.

   Public Law 85-783 · 72 Stat. 937 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

8. Joint Resolution Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to conduct studies and render a report on service to Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties from the Central Valley project, California.

   Public Law 85-784 · 72 Stat. 937 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

9. An Act To amend section 403 of the Social Security Amendments of 1954 to provide social security coverage for certain employees of tax-exempt organizations which erroneously but in good faith failed to file the required waiver certificate in time to provide such coverage.

   Public Law 85-785 · 72 Stat. 938 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

10. An Act To amend title II of the Social Security Act so as to provide that the exception from “wages” made by section 209 (i) of such Act shall not be applicable to payments to employees of a State or a political subdivision thereof for periods of absence from work on account of sickness.

    Public Law 85-786 · 72 Stat. 938 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

11. An Act To amend title II of the Social Security Act to Include Massachusetts and Vermont among the States which are permitted to divide their retirement systems into two parts so as to obtain social security coverage, under State agreement, for only those State and local employees who desire such coverage, and to permit individuals who have decided against such coverage to change their decision within a year after the division of the system.

    Public Law 85-787 · 72 Stat. 939 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

12. An Act To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture in selling or agreeing to the sale of lands to the State of North Carolina to permit the State to sell or exchange such lands for private purposes.

    Public Law 85-788 · 72 Stat. 939 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

13. An Act To amend the Act of July 27, 1956, relating to detention of mail for temporary periods in certain cases.

    Public Law 85-789 · 72 Stat. 940 · August 27, 1958 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Elmer L. Conrad and others.

    Private Law 85-725 · 72 Stat. A194 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act For the relief of AlaLu Duncan Dillard.

    Private Law 85-726 · 72 Stat. A195 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

16. An Act For the relief of Diana Elaine Greig.

    Private Law 85-727 · 72 Stat. A195 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

17. An Act For the relief of John C. Walsh.

    Private Law 85-728 · 72 Stat. A196 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

18. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Margaret Graham Bonnalie.

    Private Law 85-729 · 72 Stat. A196 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Erika Margaretha Zintl Pearce.

    Private Law 85-730 · 72 Stat. A196 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

20. An Act For the relief of Daniel (Nathaniel) Rosenzweig.

    Private Law 85-731 · 72 Stat. A197 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

21. An Act For the relief of Hing Man Chau.

    Private Law 85-732 · 72 Stat. A197 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

22. An Act For the relief of Concettina Iannacchino.

    Private Law 85-733 · 72 Stat. A197 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

23. An Act For the relief of Peter Tillner.

    Private Law 85-734 · 72 Stat. A197 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

24. An Act For the relief of Louis S. Levenson.

    Private Law 85-735 · 72 Stat. A198 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Waldo E. Miller.

    Private Law 85-736 · 72 Stat. A198 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Virginia Hell.

    Private Law 85-737 · 72 Stat. A198 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Markus H. Teitel.

    Private Law 85-738 · 72 Stat. A199 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Eldrey L. Whaley.

    Private Law 85-739 · 72 Stat. A199 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Miss Edith Dorn.

    Private Law 85-740 · 72 Stat. A200 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Homer G. Preston.

    Private Law 85-741 · 72 Stat. A200 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Maria Tarsi Priori.

    Private Law 85-742 · 72 Stat. A200 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

32. An Act For the relief of S. Jackson and Son, Incorporated.

    Private Law 85-743 · 72 Stat. A201 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

33. An Act For the relief of Clayton T. Wells.

    Private Law 85-744 · 72 Stat. A201 · August 28, 1958 · Private law · Original text

34. An Act To entitle members of the Army, Navy. Air Force, or Marine Corps retired after thirty years’ service to retired pay equal to 75 per centum of the monthly basic pay authorized for the highest enlisted, warrant, or commissioned grade in which they served satisfactorily during World War I, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-790 · 72 Stat. 940 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

35. An Act To authorize the abbreviation of the record on the review or enforcement of orders of administrative agencies by the courts of appeals and the review or enforcement of such orders on the original papers and to make uniform the law relating to the record on review or enforcement of such orders, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-791 · 72 Stat. 941 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

36. District of Columbia Taxicab Insurance Act of 1958

    An Act To amend the Act of June 29, 1938, as amended, to increase the insurance coverage required to be carried by cabs for hire in the District of Columbia for the protection of passengers and others, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-792 · 72 Stat. 952 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

37. An Act To amend section 80 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-793 · 72 Stat. 957 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

38. An Act To authorize per capita payments to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber on the Red Lake Reservation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-794 · 72 Stat. 958 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

39. Federal Employees International Organization Service Act

    An Act To encourage and authorize details and transfers of Federal employees for service with international organizations.

    Public Law 85-795 · 72 Stat. 959 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

40. An Act To amend sections 1461 and 1462 of title 18 of the United States Code.

    Public Law 85-796 · 72 Stat. 962 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

41. An Act To authorize the acquisition and disposition of certain private lands and the establishment of the size of farm units on the Seedskadee reclamation project, Wyoming, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-797 · 72 Stat. 963 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

42. An Act To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that a widow or former wife divorced who loses mother’s insurance benefits by remarriage may again become entitled if her husband dies within one year of such remarriage, to provide that interstate Instrumentalities may secure coverage for policemen and firemen in positions under a retirement system of the instrumentality.

    Public Law 85-798 · 72 Stat. 964 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

43. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the State Board of Education of the State of Florida.

    Public Law 85-799 · 72 Stat. 965 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

44. An Act To improve opportunities for small business concerns to obtain a fair proportion of Government purchases and contracts, to facilitate procurement of property and services by the Government, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-800 · 72 Stat. 966 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

45. An Act To provide for the construction of an irrigation distribution system and drainage works for restricted Indian lands within the Coachella Valley County Water District in Riverside County. California, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-801 · 72 Stat. 968 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

46. An Act To amend the Act of June 29, 1888, relating to the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits in the harbor of New York, to extend the application of that Act to the harbor of Hampton Roads.

    Public Law 85-802 · 72 Stat. 970 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

47. An Act To amend the Hawaiian Organic Act, and to approve amendments of the Hawaiian land laws, with respect to leases and other dispositions of land.

    Public Law 85-803 · 72 Stat. 971 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

48. An Act To authorize the making, amendment, and modification of contracts to facilitate the national defense.

    Public Law 85-804 · 72 Stat. 972 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

49. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army to convey approximately 181 acres of land at Fort Crowder Military Reservation to the city of Neosho, Missouri.

    Public Law 85-805 · 72 Stat. 973 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

50. An Act To transfer certain property and functions of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-806 · 72 Stat. 974 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

51. An Act To amend the laws granting education and training benefits to certain veterans so as to extend, with respect to certain individuals, the period during which such benefits may be offered.

    Public Law 85-807 · 72 Stat. 975 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

52. An Act To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 as it relates to unmanufactured mica and mica films and splittings.

    Public Law 85-808 · 72 Stat. 976 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of the State of New York.

    Public Law 85-809 · 72 Stat. 976 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

54. An Act To amend the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 193.3 (47 Stat. 1425), as amended, to authorize Incorporation of contract terms by reference in short-form documents.

    Public Law 85-810 · 72 Stat. 977 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

55. An Act To amend the Act of July 1, 1948, chapter 791 (24 U. S. C. 279a), providing for the procurement and supply of Government headstones and markers.

    Public Law 85-811 · 72 Stat. 978 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

56. An Act To authorize the sale or exchange of certain lands of the United States situated in Pima County, Arizona, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-812 · 72 Stat. 979 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the adjustment by the Secretary of the Army of the legislative jurisdiction exercised by the United States over lands within the Fort Custer Military Reservations, Michigan.

    Public Law 85-813 · 72 Stat. 979 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

58. An Act To provide for the relief of certain members and former members of the Army and the Air Force, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-814 · 72 Stat. 980 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

59. An Act To repeal certain provisions of law relating to messengers for the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.

    Public Law 85-815 · 72 Stat. 980 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the lease of Papago tribal land to the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-816 · 72 Stat. 981 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

61. An Act To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize, in certain cases, the issuance of licenses to noncitizens for radio stations on aircraft and for the operation thereof.

    Public Law 85-817 · 72 Stat. 981 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

62. An Act To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States to the city of Valparaiso, Florida.

    Public Law 85-818 · 72 Stat. 982 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution Establishing that the first session of the Eighty-sixth Congress convene at noon on Wednesday, January 7, 1959.

    Public Law 85-819 · 72 Stat. 982 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

64. An Act To rescind the authorization for the Waldo Lake Tunnel and regulating works, Willamette River, Oregon.

    Public Law 85-820 · 72 Stat. 982 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to use certain real property in the District of Columbia for the proposed Southwest Freeway and for the redevelopment of the Southwest area in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 85-821 · 72 Stat. 983 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

66. An Act Authorizing a survey of the Tensaw River, Alabama, in the interest of navigation and allied purposes.

    Public Law 85-822 · 72 Stat. 983 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

67. An Act To extend the time for making certain reports under the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.

    Public Law 85-823 · 72 Stat. 983 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

68. An Act To amend paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended.

    Public Law 85-824 · 72 Stat. 984 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

69. An Act To provide for the sale of all of the real property acquired by the Secretary of Commerce for the construction of the Burke Airport, Virginia.

    Public Law 85-825 · 72 Stat. 984 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

70. Joint Resolution To authorize the chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy to confer a medal on Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, United States Navy.

    Public Law 85-826 · 72 Stat. 985 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

71. An Act To accord coverage under the Civil Service Retirement Act to certain temporary rural carriers.

    Public Law 85-827 · 72 Stat. 985 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

72. An Act To increase the authorization for the appropriation of funds to complete the International Peace Gulden, North Dakota.

    Public Law 85-828 · 72 Stat. 985 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

73. An Act To amend title IV of the Agricultural Act of 1956 to provide that the provisions of such title shall apply in Hawaii.

    Public Law 85-829 · 72 Stat. 986 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim February 8–14, 1959, as National Children’s Dental Health Week.

    Public Law 85-830 · 72 Stat. 986 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

75. An Act To repeal the Act of July 2, 1956, concerning the conveyance of certain property of the United States to the village of Carey, Ohio.

    Public Law 85-831 · 72 Stat. 986 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

76. An Act To provide for a survey of Parish Line Canal, Louisiana.

    Public Law 85-832 · 72 Stat. 986 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

77. An Act To extend the boundaries of the Siskiyou National Forest in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-833 · 72 Stat. 987 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

78. An Act To permit certain sales and exchanges of public lands of the Territory of Hawaii to certain persons who suffered a substantial loss of real property by reason of the tidal wave of March 9, 1957.

    Public Law 85-834 · 72 Stat. 987 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

79. Agricultural Act of 1958

    An Act To provide more effective price, production adjustment, and marketing programs for various agricultural commodities.

    Public Law 85-835 · 72 Stat. 988 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

80. Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act

    An Act To provide for registration, reporting, and disclosure of employee welfare and pension benefit plans.

    Public Law 85-836 · 72 Stat. 997 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

81. An Act To provide for the disposal of federally owned property of the Hanson, Company, and Houma Canals, Louisiana, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-837 · 72 Stat. 1003 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

82. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Teachers’ Salary Act of 1955.

    Public Law 85-838 · 72 Stat. 1004 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

83. An Act To prohibit trading in onion futures on commodity exchanges.

    Public Law 85-839 · 72 Stat. 1013 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

84. Social Security Amendments of 1958

    An Act To increase benefits under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System, to improve the actuarial status of the Trust Funds of such System, and otherwise improve such System; to amend the public assistance and maternal and child health and welfare provisions of the Social Security Act; and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-840 · 72 Stat. 1013 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

85. An Act Authorizing Gus A Guerra, his heirs, legal representatives and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande, at or near Rio Grande City, Texas.

    Public Law 85-841 · 72 Stat. 1057 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

86. An Act To extend the time for the collection of tolls to amortize the cost, including reasonable Interest and financing cost, of the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Miami, Missouri.

    Public Law 85-842 · 72 Stat. 1057 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

87. An Act To designate the dam and reservoir to be constructed on the Cumberland River near Carthage, Tennessee, as the “Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir” and to establish the United States Study Commission on the Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe-San Antonio, Nueces, and San Jacinto River Basins, and intervening areas.

    Public Law 85-843 · 72 Stat. 1058 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

88. Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-844 · 72 Stat. 1063 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution Requiring the Secretary of Commerce to submit certain recommendations for legislation for the purpose of assisting Congress to determine whether or not to reimburse States for certain highways on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

    Public Law 85-845 · 72 Stat. 1083 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

90. EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958

    An Act To provide for cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community.

    Public Law 85-846 · 72 Stat. 1084 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

91. An Act To provide additional opportunity for certain Government employees to obtain career-conditional and career appointments in the competitive civil service.

    Public Law 85-847 · 72 Stat. 1086 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

92. Ex-Servicemen’s Unemployment Compensation Act of 1958

    An Act To amend title XV of the Social Security Act to extend the unemployment insurance system to ex-servicemen, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-848 · 72 Stat. 1087 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

93. An Act To maintain existing minimum postage rates on certain publications mailed for delivery within the county of publication.

    Public Law 85-849 · 72 Stat. 1089 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

94. An Act To establish the United States Study Commission on the Savannah, Altamaha, Saint Marys, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee, and Perdido-Escambia River Basins, and intervening areas.

    Public Law 85-850 · 72 Stat. 1090 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

95. An Act To amend the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands.

    Public Law 85-851 · 72 Stat. 1094 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

96. Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-852 · 72 Stat. 1096 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

97. Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1959

    An Act Making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 85-853 · 72 Stat. 1100 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

98. An Act To amend the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, as amended.

    Public Law 85-854 · 72 Stat. 1102 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

99. An Act To amend Public Law 85–422.

    Public Law 85-855 · 72 Stat. 1104 · August 28, 1958 · Original text

100. An Act For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Holshouser.

     Private Law 85-745 · 72 Stat. A201 · September 2, 1958 · Private law · Original text