Every law Congress has passed

1,283 laws of the 89th Congress, 1965–1967

1. An Act To provide for the appointment of additional circuit and district judges, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 89-372 · 80 Stat. 75 · March 18, 1966 · Original text

2. An Act For the relief of the estate of Robert A. Ethridge.

   Private Law 89-230 · 80 Stat. 1621 · March 18, 1966 · Private law · Original text

3. An Act To amend the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1054 and the Civil Service Retirement Aet with regard to filing designation of beneficiary, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 89-373 · 80 Stat. 78 · March 23, 1966 · Original text

4. An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 89-374 · 80 Stat. 79 · March 25, 1966 · Original text

5. An Act To provide for United States participation In the 1967 statewide celebration of the centennial of the Alaska Purchase.

   Public Law 89-375 · 80 Stat. 82 · March 26, 1966 · Original text

6. Federal Coal Mine Safety Act Amendments of 1965

   An Act To amend the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act so as to provide further for the prevention of accidents in coal mines.

   Public Law 89-376 · 80 Stat. 84 · March 26, 1966 · Original text

7. An Act To provide for the discontinuance of the Postal Savings System, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 89-377 · 80 Stat. 92 · March 28, 1966 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize redetermination under the Civil Service Retirement Act of annuities of certain reemployed annuitants.

   Public Law 89-378 · 80 Stat. 93 · March 30, 1966 · Original text

9. An Act To preserve the benefits of the Civil Service Retirement Act, the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959 for congressional employees receiving certain congressional staff fellowships.

   Public Law 89-379 · 80 Stat. 94 · March 30, 1966 · Original text

10. Back Pay Act of 1966

    An Act To provide for the payment of certain amounts and restoration of employment benefits to certain Government officers and employees improperly deprived thereof, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-380 · 80 Stat. 94 · March 30, 1966 · Original text

11. An Act To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard.

    Public Law 89-381 · 80 Stat. 96 · March 30, 1966 · Original text

12. An Act To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of San Antonio.

    Public Law 89-382 · 80 Stat. 98 · March 31, 1966 · Original text

13. An Act To authorize the payment of an allowance of not to exceed $10 per day to employees assigned to duty at the Nevada Test Site of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-383 · 80 Stat. 98 · March 31, 1966 · Original text

14. An Act For the relief of Edward F. Murzyn and Edward J. O’Brien.

    Private Law 89-231 · 80 Stat. 1622 · April 4, 1966 · Private law · Original text

15. An Act To amend the Intermit Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for treatment of the recovery of losses arising from expropriation, intervention, or confiscation of properties by governments of foreign countries, and to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the initial enrollment period for supplementary medical insurance benefits.

    Public Law 89-384 · 80 Stat. 99 · April 8, 1966 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Designating April 9, 1966, as “Sir Winston Churchill Day”.

    Public Law 89-385 · 80 Stat. 106 · April 9, 1966 · Original text

17. An Act Authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.

    Public Law 89-386 · 80 Stat. 106 · April 9, 1966 · Original text

18. Uniform Time Act of 1966

    An Act To promote the observance of a uniform system of time throughout the United States.

    Public Law 89-387 · 80 Stat. 107 · April 13, 1966 · Original text

19. An Act To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to make permanent the existing temporary suspension of duty on copra, palm nuts, and palm-nut kernels, and the oils crushed therefrom, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-388 · 80 Stat. 109 · April 13, 1966 · Original text

20. An Act To amend subchapter S of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-389 · 80 Stat. 111 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

21. An Act To authorize the release of platinum from the national stockpile, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-390 · 80 Stat. 116 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

22. An Act To correct inequities with respect to the basic compensation of teachers and teaching positions under the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act.

    Public Law 89-391 · 80 Stat. 117 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

23. An Act To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on certain tropical hardwoods.

    Public Law 89-392 · 80 Stat. 118 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

24. An Act To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia.

    Public Law 89-393 · 80 Stat. 119 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

25. An Act To authorize the disposal, without regard to the six-month waiting period, of approximately one hundred twenty-six thousand three hundred long calcined tons of refractory grade bauxite from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 89-394 · 80 Stat. 119 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of retired officers of the Army. Navy, and Air Force.

    Public Law 89-395 · 80 Stat. 120 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

27. An Act To validate the action of the Acting Superintendent, Yosemite National Park, in extending the 1955 leave year for certain Federal employees, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-396 · 80 Stat. 120 · April 14, 1966 · Original text

28. An Act To provide for the free entry of certain stained glass for the Congregation Emanuel, Denver, Colorado, and of certain chipped colored glass windows for Saint Ann’s Church, Las Vegas, Nevada.

    Private Law 89-232 · 80 Stat. 1622 · April 14, 1966 · Private law · Original text

29. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to proclaim the week beginning April 17, 1966, as “State and Municipal Bond Week”.

    Public Law 89-397 · 80 Stat. 120 · April 16, 1966 · Original text

30. An Act To authorize the loan of naval vessels to China.

    Public Law 89-398 · 80 Stat. 121 · April 16, 1966 · Original text

31. An Act To amend the Fire and Casualty Act regulating the business of fire, marine, and casualty insurance in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 89-399 · 80 Stat. 121 · April 16, 1966 · Original text

32. An Act To furnish to the Scranton Association, Incorporated, medals in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

    Public Law 89-400 · 80 Stat. 122 · April 16, 1966 · Original text

33. An Act To provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Numismatic Association.

    Public Law 89-401 · 80 Stat. 122 · April 16, 1966 · Original text

34. An Act To provide relief for the heirs and devisees of Fly and Her Growth, deceased Lower Brule Indian allottees.

    Private Law 89-233 · 80 Stat. 1622 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

35. An Act For the relief of Kock Kong Fong.

    Private Law 89-234 · 80 Stat. 1623 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

36. An Act For the relief of Przemyslaw Nowakowski.

    Private Law 89-234 · 80 Stat. 1623 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

37. An Act For the relief of Manojlo Verzich.

    Private Law 89-236 · 80 Stat. 1624 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

38. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Panaglota Vastakis and Soteros Vastakis.

    Private Law 89-237 · 80 Stat. 1624 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

39. An Act For the relief of Ralph Tigno Edquid.

    Private Law 89-238 · 80 Stat. 1624 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of David Glenn Barker (Jai Yul Sung) and Richard Paul Barker (Pil Su Park).

    Private Law 89-239 · 80 Stat. 1624 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Ki Sook Jun.

    Private Law 89-240 · 80 Stat. 1625 · April 16, 1966 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act To confer additional jurisdiction upon the Superintendent of Insurance for the District of Columbia to regulate domestic stock insurance companies and to exempt such companies from section 12(g)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

    Public Law 89-402 · 80 Stat. 123 · April 18, 1966 · Original text

43. An Act To amend the Fire and Casualty Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of insurance premium finance companies in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 89-403 · 80 Stat. 126 · April 18, 1966 · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of the Troubadors Drum and Bugle Corps of Bridge port. Connecticut.

    Private Law 89-241 · 80 Stat. 1625 · April 18, 1966 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act To promote a more adequate national program of water research.

    Public Law 89-404 · 80 Stat. 129 · April 19, 1966 · Original text

46. An Act Relating to the tariff treatment of certain woven fabrics.

    Public Law 89-405 · 80 Stat. 130 · April 19, 1966 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution To support United States participation in relieving victims of hunger in India and to enhance India’s capacity to meet the nutritional needs of its people.

    Public Law 89-406 · 80 Stat. 131 · April 19, 1966 · Original text

48. An Act To define the term “child” for lump-sum payment purposes under the Civil Service Retirement Act.

    Public Law 89-407 · 80 Stat. 131 · April 25, 1966 · Original text

49. An Act To amend the Indian Long-Term Leasing Act.

    Public Law 89-408 · 80 Stat. 132 · April 27, 1966 · Original text

50. An Act To amend section 4(c) of the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-409 · 80 Stat. 132 · May 2, 1966 · Original text

51. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to proclaim May 4, 1966, as a “Day of Recognition” for firefighters.

    Public Law 89-410 · 80 Stat. 134 · May 4, 1966 · Original text

52. Joint Resolution To provide for the designation of the week beginning April 23, 1967, as “Youth Temperance Education Week”.

    Public Law 89-411 · 80 Stat. 134 · May 4, 1966 · Original text

53. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Sadie Y. Simmons and James R. Simmons.

    Private Law 89-242 · 80 Stat. 1625 · May 4, 1966 · Private law · Original text

54. Joint Resolution To provide for the designation of the week of May 8 to May 14, 1966, as “National School Safety Patrol Week”.

    Public Law 89-412 · 80 Stat. 134 · May 5, 1966 · Original text

55. An Act To authorize the disposal of molybdenum from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 89-413 · 80 Stat. 135 · May 5, 1966 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 39b of the Bankruptcy Act so as to prohibit referees from acting as trustees or receivers in any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Act.

    Public Law 89-414 · 80 Stat. 135 · May 10, 1966 · Original text

57. An Act For the relief of Joanna K. Georgoulia.

    Private Law 89-243 · 80 Stat. 1626 · May 10, 1966 · Private law · Original text

58. An Act To authorize the disposal of metallurgical grade chromite from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-415 · 80 Stat. 136 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

59. An Act To authorize the disposal of acid grade fluorspar from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 89-416 · 80 Stat. 136 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

60. An Act To authorize the disposal of bismuth from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-417 · 80 Stat. 136 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

61. An Act To authorize the disposal of phlogopite mica from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-418 · 80 Stat. 137 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize the disposal of muscovite mica from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-419 · 80 Stat. 137 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

63. An Act To authorize the disposal of rhodium from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 89-420 · 80 Stat. 138 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the disposal of thorium from the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-421 · 80 Stat. 138 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

65. An Act To authorize the disposal of amosite asbestos from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-422 · 80 Stat. 138 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

66. An Act To authorize the disposal of ruthenium from the supplemental stockpile.

    Public Law 89-423 · 80 Stat. 139 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

67. An Act To authorize the disposal of vanadium from the national stockpile.

    Public Law 89-424 · 80 Stat. 139 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

68. An Act To provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the United States Court of Claims, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-425 · 80 Stat. 139 · May 11, 1966 · Original text

69. An Act For the relief of Frantisek Vohryzka.

    Private Law 89-244 · 80 Stat. 1626 · May 11, 1966 · Private law · Original text

70. Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1960

    An Act Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-426 · 80 Stat. 141 · May 13, 1966 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize revised procedures for the destruction of unfit Federal Reserve notes, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-427 · 80 Stat. 161 · May 20, 1966 · Original text

72. An Act To authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-428 · 80 Stat. 162 · May 21, 1966 · Original text

73. Participation Sales Act of 1966

    An Act To promote private financing of credit needs and to provide for an efficient and orderly method of liquidating financial assets held by Federal credit agencies, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-429 · 80 Stat. 164 · May 24, 1966 · Original text

74. An Act To amend section 1(14) (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act to insure the adequacy of the national railroad freight car supply, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-430 · 80 Stat. 168 · May 26, 1966 · Original text

75. An Act To amend title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 to make permanent the existing duty-free treatment for certain corkboard insulation.

    Public Law 89-431 · 80 Stat. 168 · May 26, 1966 · Original text

76. An Act For the relief of Virgilio Acosta-Martinez.

    Private Law 89-245 · 80 Stat. 1626 · May 26, 1966 · Private law · Original text

77. An Act For the relief of Abraham Ezekiel Cohen.

    Private Law 89-246 · 80 Stat. 1627 · May 26, 1966 · Private law · Original text

78. An Act To continue for a temporary period the existing suspension of duty on heptanoic acid.

    Public Law 89-432 · 80 Stat. 169 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

79. An Act To make permanent the existing suspension of duty on certain natural graphite.

    Public Law 89-433 · 80 Stat. 169 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

80. An Act To extend until July 15, 1968, the suspension of duty on electrodes imported for use in producing aluminum.

    Public Law 89-434 · 80 Stat. 169 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

81. Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1967

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-435 · 80 Stat. 170 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

82. An Act To make permanent the existing duty-free treatment of personal and household effects brought into the United States under Government orders.

    Public Law 89-436 · 80 Stat. 189 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

83. An Act To continue until the close of June 30, 1969, the existing suspension of duty on certain copying shoe lathes.

    Public Law 89-437 · 80 Stat. 190 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

84. An Act To establish the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area in the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-438 · 80 Stat. 190 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

85. An Act To extend until June 30, 1969, the suspension of duty on crude chicory and the reduction in duty on ground chicory.

    Public Law 89-439 · 80 Stat. 191 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

86. An Act To continue the suspension of duty on certain alumina and bauxite.

    Public Law 89-440 · 80 Stat. 192 · May 31, 1966 · Original text

87. An Act To authorize conveyance of certain lands to the State of Utah based upon fair market value.

    Public Law 89-441 · 80 Stat. 192 · June 3, 1966 · Original text

88. An Act To retrocede to the Shite of Kansas concurrent jurisdiction over Haskell Institute.

    Public Law 89-442 · 80 Stat. 194 · June 8, 1966 · Original text

89. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to proclaim the week in which June 14 occurs as National Flag Week.

    Public Law 89-443 · 80 Stat. 194 · June 9, 1966 · Original text

90. An Act To improve and clarify certain laws of the Coast Guard.

    Public Law 89-444 · 80 Stat. 195 · June 9, 1966 · Original text

91. An Act To declare that 99.84 acres of Government-owned land acquired for Indian administrative purposes is held by the United States in trust for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation.

    Public Law 89-445 · 80 Stat. 198 · June 9, 1966 · Original text

92. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer certain lands in the State of Colorado to the Department of Agriculture for recreation development, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-446 · 80 Stat. 199 · June 11, 1966 · Original text

93. An Act To extend the provisions of title XIII of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, relating to war risk insurance.

    Public Law 89-447 · 80 Stat. 199 · June 13, 1966 · Original text

94. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain a third powerplant at the Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin project, Washington, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 89-448 · 80 Stat. 200 · June 14, 1966 · Original text

95. Joint Resolution To designate the period beginning June 13, 1966, and ending June 19, 1966, as “Gas Industry Week”.

    Public Law 89-449 · 80 Stat. 201 · June 15, 1966 · Original text

96. Joint Resolution To designate the third Sunday in June 1966 as Father’s Day.

    Public Law 89-450 · 80 Stat. 201 · June 15, 1966 · Original text

97. An Act To permit the planting of alternate crops on acreage which is unplanted because of a natural disaster.

    Public Law 89-451 · 80 Stat. 202 · June 17, 1966 · Original text

98. An Act To authorize the adjustment of the legislative jurisdiction exercised by the United States over lands within the Columbia River at the mouth project in the States of Washington and Oregon.

    Public Law 89-452 · 80 Stat. 202 · June 17, 1966 · Original text

99. An Act Amending sections 2 and 4 of the Act approved September 22, 1964 (78 Stat. 990), providing for an investigation and study to determine a site for the construction of a new sea level canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

    Public Law 89-453 · 80 Stat. 203 · June 17, 1966 · Original text

100. Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966

     An Act To provide for a comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated national program in marine science, to establish a National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, and a Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, and for other purposes.

     Public Law 89-454 · 80 Stat. 203 · June 17, 1966 · Original text