Every law Congress has passed

942 laws of the 91st Congress, 1969–1971

1. Joint Resolution To authorize the President to designate the period beginning October 5, 1970, and ending October 9, 1970, as “National PTA Week”.

   Public Law 91-434 · 84 Stat. 887 · October 6, 1970 · Original text

2. An Act To amend section 205 of the Act of September 21, 1944 (58 Stat 736), as amended.

   Public Law 91-435 · 84 Stat. 888 · October 6, 1970 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to proclaim the month of October 1970 as “Project Concern Month”.

   Public Law 91-436 · 84 Stat. 888 · October 6, 1970 · Original text

4. Public Broadcasting Financing Act of 1970

   An Act To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide continued financing for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

   Public Law 91-437 · 84 Stat. 888 · October 7, 1970 · Original text

5. Joint Resolution Expressing the support of the Congress, and urging the support of Federal departments and agencies as well as other persons and organizations, both public and private, for the international biological program.

   Public Law 91-438 · 84 Stat. 889 · October 7, 1970 · Original text

6. Public Works for Water, Pollution Control, and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act, 1971

   An Act Making appropriations for public works for water, pollution control, and power development, including the Corps of Engineers—Civil, the Panama Canal, the Federal Water Quality Administration, the Bureau of Reclamation, power agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy Commission, and related independent agencies and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 91-439 · 84 Stat. 890 · October 7, 1970 · Original text

7. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of Portsmouth, State of Virginia, certain lands situated within the Crawford urban renewal project (Va–53) in the city of Portsmouth, in exchange for certain lands situated within the proposed Southside neighborhood development project.

   Public Law 91-440 · 84 Stat. 904 · October 7, 1970 · Original text

8. An Act To authorize appropriations during the fiscal year 1971 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, and tracked combat vehicles, and other weapons, and research, development, test, and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and to authorize real estate acquisition, and construction at certain installations In connection with the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system, and to prescribe the authorized personnel strength of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 91-441 · 84 Stat. 905 · October 7, 1970 · Original text

9. Joint Resolution To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to establish the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week”, approved August 11, 1945 (59 Stat. 530), so as to broaden the applicability of such resolution to ail handicapped workers.

   Public Law 91-442 · 84 Stat. 914 · October 8, 1970 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a proclamation designating the week of August 1 through August 7, 1971, as “National Clown Week”.

    Public Law 91-443 · 84 Stat. 914 · October 8, 1970 · Original text

11. An Act To extend for one year the Act of September 30, 1965, as amended by the Act of July 24, 1968, relating to high-speed ground transportation, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-444 · 84 Stat. 915 · October 13, 1970 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to proclaim National Volunteer Firemen’s Week from October 24, 1970, to October 31, 1970.

    Public Law 91-445 · 84 Stat. 915 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

13. An Act To amend section 13d of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to increase the amount of bonds which may be issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

    Public Law 91-446 · 84 Stat. 915 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

14. An Act To amend section 3006A of title 18, United States Code, relating to representation of defendants who are financially unable to obtain an adequate defense in criminal cases in the courts of the United States.

    Public Law 91-447 · 84 Stat. 916 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

15. An Act To amend sections 501 and 504 of title 18, United States Code, so as to strengthen the law relating to the counterfeiting of postage meter stamps or other improper uses of the metered mail system.

    Public Law 91-448 · 84 Stat. 920 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

16. An Act To implement the Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-449 · 84 Stat. 921 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

17. An Act To continue the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District, of Puerto Rico over certain eating pending in that court on June 2, 1970.

    Public Law 91-450 · 84 Stat. 922 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

18. An Act To amend section 3 of the Act of November 2, 1988, to extend for three years the authority to make appropriations to carry out such Act.

    Public Law 91-451 · 84 Stat. 922 · October 14, 1970 · Original text

19. An Act For the relief of Ruth E. Calvert.

    Private Law 91-168 · 84 Stat. 2135 · October 14, 1970 · Private law · Original text

20. Organized Time Control Act of 1970

    An Act Relating to the control of organized crime in the United States.

    Public Law 91-452 · 84 Stat. 922 · October 15, 1970 · Original text

21. Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1970

    An Act To provide long-term financing for expanded urban mass transportation programs, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-453 · 84 Stat. 962 · October 15, 1970 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1971, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-454 · 84 Stat. 969 · October 15, 1970 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution To extend the time for conducting the referendum with respect to the national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1971.

    Public Law 91-455 · 84 Stat. 969 · October 15, 1970 · Original text

24. An Act To provide for the flying of the American flag over the remains of the United States ship Utah in honor of the heroic men who were entombed in her hull on December 7, 1941.

    Public Law 91-456 · 84 Stat. 970 · October 15, 1970 · Original text

25. An Act For the relief of Peter Rudolf Gross.

    Private Law 91-169 · 84 Stat. 2135 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

26. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Nimet Weiss.

    Private Law 91-170 · 84 Stat. 2136 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

27. An Act For the relief of Ah Mee Locke.

    Private Law 91-171 · 84 Stat. 2136 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

28. An Act For the relief of Kimoko Ann Duke.

    Private Law 91-172 · 84 Stat. 2136 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

29. An Act For the relief of Maria Pierotti Lenci.

    Private Law 91-173 · 84 Stat. 2136 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

30. An Act For the relief of Mrs. Anita Ordillas.

    Private Law 91-174 · 84 Stat. 2137 · October 15, 1970 · Private law · Original text

31. An Act To establish the Fort Point National Historic Site in San Francisco, California, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-457 · 84 Stat. 970 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

32. An Act To provide for Federal railroad safety, hazardous materials control and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-458 · 84 Stat. 971 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

33. An Act To provide for the conveyance to Pima and Maricopa Counties, Arizona, and to the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, of certain lands for recreational purposes under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926.

    Public Law 91-459 · 84 Stat. 978 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

34. An Act To amend section 4 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands relating to voting age.

    Public Law 91-460 · 84 Stat. 978 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

35. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Western Interstate Nuclear Compact, and related purposes.

    Public Law 91-461 · 84 Stat. 979 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

36. An Act To authorize a study of the feasibility and desirability of establishing a unit of the national park system to commemorate the opening of the Cherokee Strip to homesteading, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-462 · 84 Stat. 986 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

37. An Act To amend section 11 of the Act approved February 22, 1889 (25 Stat. 676) as amended by the Act of May 7, 1932 (47 Stat. 150), and as amended by the Act of April 13, 1948 (62 Stat. 170) relating to the admission to the Union of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-463 · 84 Stat. 987 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

38. Communicable Disease Control Amendments of 1970

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authorization for grants for communicable disease control and vaccination assistance.

    Public Law 91-464 · 84 Stat. 988 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

39. An Act To authorize the establishment of the Andersonville National Historic Site in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-465 · 84 Stat. 989 · October 16, 1970 · Original text

40. An Act For the relief of Kathryn Talbot.

    Private Law 91-175 · 84 Stat. 2137 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

41. An Act For the relief of Curtis Nolan Reed.

    Private Law 91-176 · 84 Stat. 2137 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

42. An Act For the relief of Kyung Ae Oh.

    Private Law 91-177 · 84 Stat. 2138 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

43. An Act For the relief of Ming Chang.

    Private Law 91-178 · 84 Stat. 2138 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

44. An Act For the relief of Kim Julia and Park Tong Op.

    Private Law 91-179 · 84 Stat. 2138 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

45. An Act For the relief of Hyun Joo Lee and Myung Joo Lee.

    Private Law 91-180 · 84 Stat. 2139 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

46. An Act To validate the conveyance of certain land in the State of California by the Southern Pacific Company.

    Private Law 91-181 · 84 Stat. 2139 · October 16, 1970 · Private law · Original text

47. An Act To extend for two years the period for which payments in lieu of taxes may be made with respect to certain real property transferred by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its subsidiaries to other Government departments.

    Public Law 91-466 · 84 Stat. 990 · October 17, 1970 · Original text

48. An Act To amend the Bankruptcy Act, sections 2, 14, 15, 17, 38, and 58, to permit the discharge of debts in a subsequent proceeding after denial of discharge for specified reasons in an earlier proceeding, to authorize courts of bankruptcy to determine the dischargeability or non dischargeability of provable debts, and to provide additional grounds for the revocation of discharges.

    Public Law 91-467 · 84 Stat. 990 · October 19, 1970 · Original text

49. An Act To provide insurance for member accounts in State and federally chartered credit unions and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-468 · 84 Stat. 994 · October 19, 1970 · Original text

50. Merchant Marine Act of 1970

    An Act To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.

    Public Law 91-469 · 84 Stat. 1018 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

51. An Act To permit the use for any public purpose of certain real property in the State of Georgia.

    Public Law 91-470 · 84 Stat. 1039 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

52. An Act To declare that the United States holds 19.57 acres of land, more or less, in trust for the Yankton Sioux Tribe.

    Public Law 91-471 · 84 Stat. 1039 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

53. Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1971

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-472 · 84 Stat. 1040 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution To provide for the temporary extension of the Federal Housing Administration’s insurance authority.

    Public Law 91-473 · 84 Stat. 1064 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

55. An Act To establish the Plymouth-Provincetown Celebration Commission.

    Public Law 91-474 · 84 Stat. 1065 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

56. An Act To amend section 15–503 of the District of Columbia Code with respect to exemptions from attachment and certain other process in the case of persons not residing in the District of Columbia.

    Public Law 91-475 · 84 Stat. 1066 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

57. An Act To provide for the establishment of the King Range National Conservation Area in the State of California.

    Public Law 91-476 · 84 Stat. 1067 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

58. An Act To amend the International Travel Act of 1961, as amended, in order to improve the balance of payments by further promoting travel to the United States, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-477 · 84 Stat. 1071 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

59. An Act To convey certain federally owned land to the Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma.

    Public Law 91-478 · 84 Stat. 1074 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

60. An Act To establish in the State of Michigan the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-479 · 84 Stat. 1075 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

61. An Act To revise the per diem allowance authorized for members of the American Battle Monuments Commission when in a travel status.

    Public Law 91-480 · 84 Stat. 1081 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

62. An Act To authorize subsistence, without charge, to certain air evacuation patients.

    Public Law 91-481 · 84 Stat. 1081 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

63. An Act To repeal several obsolete sections of title 10, United States Code, and section 208 of title 37, United States Code.

    Public Law 91-482 · 84 Stat. 1082 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

64. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance for development and operation costs of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve in the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-483 · 84 Stat. 1083 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

65. An Act To amend title 37, United States Code, to provide that enlisted members of a uniformed service who accept appointments as officers shall not receive less than the pay and allowances to which they were previously entitled by virtue of their enlisted status.

    Public Law 91-484 · 84 Stat. 1083 · October 21, 1970 · Original text

66. An Act For the relief of Keum Ja Franks.

    Private Law 91-182 · 84 Stat. 2148 · October 21, 1970 · Private law · Original text

67. An Act To release and convey the reversionary interest of the United States in certain real property known as the McNary Dam Townsite, Umatilla County, Oregon.

    Private Law 91-183 · 84 Stat. 2148 · October 21, 1970 · Private law · Original text

68. An Act For the relief of Johnny Mason, Junior (Johnny Trinidad Mason, Junior).

    Private Law 91-184 · 84 Stat. 2149 · October 21, 1970 · Private law · Original text

69. An Act To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-485 · 84 Stat. 1084 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

70. An Act To amend section 405 of title 37, United States Code, relating to cost-of-living allowances for members of the uniformed services on duty outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska.

    Public Law 91-486 · 84 Stat. 1085 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

71. An Act To amend section 1482 of title 10, United States Code, to authorize the payment of certain expenses incident to the death of members of the armed forces in which no remains are recovered.

    Public Law 91-487 · 84 Stat. 1086 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

72. An Act To amend chapter 3 of title 16 of the District of Columbia Code to change the requirement of consent to the adoption of a person under twenty-one years of age.

    Public Law 91-488 · 84 Stat. 1086 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

73. An Act To declare that certain lands shall be held by the United States in trust for the Makah Indian Tribe, Washington.

    Public Law 91-489 · 84 Stat. 1086 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

74. An Act To authorize voluntary admission of patients to the District of Columbia institution providing care, education, and treatment of substantially retarded persons.

    Public Law 91-490 · 84 Stat. 1087 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

75. An Act To adjust the date of rank of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps.

    Public Law 91-491 · 84 Stat. 1089 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

76. An Act To amend title 18 of the United States Code to authorize the Attorney General to admit to residential community treatment centers persons who are placed on probation, released on parole, or mandatorily released.

    Public Law 91-492 · 84 Stat. 1090 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

77. An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the village of Baudette, State of Minnesota, its public successors or public assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rainy River at or near Baudette, Minnesota”, approved December 21, 1950.

    Public Law 91-493 · 84 Stat. 1090 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

78. An Act To provide for the immunity from taxation in the District of Columbia in the ease of the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium, and any successor organization thereto.

    Public Law 91-494 · 84 Stat. 1091 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

79. An Act To authorize each of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma to popularly select their principal officer, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-495 · 84 Stat. 1091 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

80. An Act To amend title 38 of the United States Code in order to improve and make more effective the Veterans’ Administration program of sharing specialized medical resources, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-496 · 84 Stat. 1092 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

81. An Act To revise certain provisions of tile criminal laws of the District of Columbia relating to offenses against hotels, motels, and other commercial lodgings, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-497 · 84 Stat. 1093 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

82. Joint Resolution Granting the consent of the Congress to an agreement between the State of Florida and the State of Georgia establishing a boundary between such States.

    Public Law 91-498 · 84 Stat. 1094 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

83. An Act To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to sell or exchange certain real property owned by the District in Prince William County, Virginia.

    Public Law 91-499 · 84 Stat. 1095 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

84. An Act To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that veterans who are seventy-two years of age or older shall be deemed to be unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital or domiciliary care, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-500 · 84 Stat. 1096 · October 22, 1970 · Original text

85. An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to declare that the United States holds in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina certain lands on the Cherokee Indian Reservation heretofore used for school or other purposes.

    Public Law 91-501 · 84 Stat. 1097 · October 22, 1970 · H. R. 16811 · Original text

86. An Act Supplemental to the Act of February 9, 1821, incorporating the Columbian College, now known as The George Washington University, in the District of Columbia and the Acts amendatory or supplemental thereof.

    Private Law 91-185 · 84 Stat. 2149 · October 22, 1970 · Private law · Original text

87. An Act To amend the Central Valley reclamation project to include Black Butte project.

    Public Law 91-502 · 84 Stat. 1097 · October 23, 1970 · Original text

88. An Act To revise and clarify the Federal Aid In Wildlife Restoration Act and the Federal Aid in Fish Restoration Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-503 · 84 Stat. 1097 · October 23, 1970 · Original text

89. An Act To designate certain lands as wilderness.

    Public Law 91-504 · 84 Stat. 1104 · October 23, 1970 · Original text

90. An Act To render the assertion of land claims by the United States based upon accretion or avulsion subject to legal and equitable defenses to which private persons asserting such claims would be subject.

    Public Law 91-505 · 84 Stat. 1106 · October 23, 1970 · Original text

91. Veterans’ Housing Act of 197 0

    An Act To amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize guaranteed and direct loans to eligible veterans for mobile homes and lots therefor if used as permanent dwellings, to remove the time limitation on the use of entitlement to benefits under such chapter, and to restore such entitlements which have lapsed prior to use or expiration, to eliminate the guaranteed and direct loan fee collected under such chapter, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-506 · 84 Stat. 1108 · October 23, 1970 · Original text

92. An Act For the relief of Colie Lance Johnson, Junior.

    Private Law 91-186 · 84 Stat. 2149 · October 23, 1970 · Private law · Original text

93. Joint Resolution To authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating January 1971 as “National Blood Donor Mouth”.

    Public Law 91-507 · 84 Stat. 1114 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

94. An Act To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to require insured banks to maintain certain records, to require that certain transactions in United States currency be reported to the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-508 · 84 Stat. 1114 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

95. Policemen and Firemen’s Retirement and Disability Act Amendments of 1970

    An Act To provide for the retirement of officers anti members of the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, the Executive Protective Service, and of certain officers and members of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-509 · 84 Stat. 1136 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

96. Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970

    An Act To improve the operation of the legislative branch of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-510 · 84 Stat. 1140 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

97. Military Construction Authorization Act, 1911

    An Act To authorize certain construction at military installations, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-511 · 84 Stat. 1204 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

98. Resource Recovery Act of 1970

    An Act To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act in order to provide financial assistance for the construction of solid waste disposal facilities, to improve research programs pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 91-512 · 84 Stat. 1227 · October 26, 1970 · Original text

99. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse.

    Public Law 91-513 · 84 Stat. 1236 · October 27, 1970 · Original text

100. An Act To strengthen the penalties for illegal fishing in the territorial waters and the contiguous fishery zone of the United States, and for other purposes.

     Public Law 91-514 · 84 Stat. 1296 · October 27, 1970 · Original text