Every law Congress has passed

688 laws of the 99th Congress, 1985–1987

1. Joint Resolution To designate the week beginning September 15, 1985, as “National Dental Hygiene Week”.

   Public Law 99-101 · 99 Stat. 469 · September 27, 1985 · Original text

2. Joint Resolution Designating the week beginning September 22, 1985, as “National Adult Day Care Center Week”.

   Public Law 99-102 · 99 Stat. 470 · September 27, 1985 · Original text

3. Joint Resolution Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1986, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 99-103 · 99 Stat. 471 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

4. An Act To approve the Interstate Cost Estimate and Interstate Substitute Cost Estimate.

   Public Law 99-104 · 99 Stat. 474 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

5. An Act To authorize appropriations under the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 for fiscal years 1986 and 1987, and for other purposes.

   Public Law 99-105 · 99 Stat. 475 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

6. Joint Resolution To grant the consent of Congress to certain additional powers conferred upon the Bi-State Development Agency by the States of Missouri and Illinois.

   Public Law 99-106 · 99 Stat. 477 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

7. Emergency Extension Act of 1985

   An Act To extend for 45 days the application of tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program.

   Public Law 99-107 · 99 Stat. 479 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

8. An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide interim extensions of the authority of the Veterans’ Administration to operate a regional office in the Republic of the Philippines, to contract for hospital care and outpatient services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and to contract for treatment and rehabilitation services for alcohol and drug dependence and abuse disabilities; and to amend the Emergency Veterans’ Job Training Act of 1983 to extend the period for entering into training under such Act.

   Public Law 99-108 · 99 Stat. 481 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

9. An Act To provide that the authority to establish and administer flexible and compressed work schedules for Federal Government employees be extended through October 31, 1985.

   Public Law 99-109 · 99 Stat. 482 · September 30, 1985 · Original text

10. Joint Resolution Recognizing the accomplishments over the past 50 years resulting from the passage of the Historic Sites Act of 1935, one of this Nation’s landmark preservation laws.

    Public Law 99-110 · 99 Stat. 483 · October 1, 1985 · Original text

11. Joint Resolution To recognize both Peace Corps volunteers and the Peace Corps on the Agency’s twenty-fifth anniversary, 1985–86.

    Public Law 99-111 · 99 Stat. 484 · October 1, 1985 · Original text

12. Joint Resolution To designate the week of October 6, 1985, through October 12, 1985, as “Mental Illness Awareness Week”.

    Public Law 99-112 · 99 Stat. 485 · October 1, 1985 · Original text

13. Joint Resolution To designate the month of October 1985 as “National Spina Bifida Month”.

    Public Law 99-113 · 99 Stat. 487 · October 1, 1985 · Original text

14. An Act To extend temporarily certain provisions of law.

    Public Law 99-114 · 99 Stat. 488 · October 1, 1985 · Original text

15. Joint Resolution To designate October 1985 as “Learning Disabilities Awareness Month”.

    Public Law 99-115 · 99 Stat. 489 · October 4, 1985 · Original text

16. Joint Resolution Reaffirming our historic solidarity with the people of Mexico following the devastating earthquake of September 19, 1985.

    Public Law 99-116 · 99 Stat. 490 · October 4, 1985 · Original text

17. Health Services Amendments of 1985

    An Act To amend various provisions of the Public Health Service Act.

    Public Law 99-117 · 99 Stat. 491 · October 7, 1985 · Original text

18. Joint Resolution To designate 1985 as the “Oil Heat Centennial Year”.

    Public Law 99-118 · 99 Stat. 496 · October 7, 1985 · Original text

19. An Act To grant a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.

    Public Law 99-119 · 99 Stat. 498 · October 7, 1985 · Original text

20. Joint Resolution To provide for the temporary extension of certain programs relating to housing and community development, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-120 · 99 Stat. 502 · October 8, 1985 · Original text

21. An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 19.54 to simplify the imputed interest rules of sections 1274 and 483, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-121 · 99 Stat. 505 · October 11, 1985 · Original text

22. Joint Resolution To designate October 16, 1985, as “World Food Day”.

    Public Law 99-122 · 99 Stat. 515 · October 16, 1985 · Original text

23. Joint Resolution To provide for the designation of the week of October 6 through October 12, 1985, as “Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week”.

    Public Law 99-123 · 99 Stat. 517 · October 16, 1985 · Original text

24. Joint Resolution To designate the week of October 6, 1985 through October 13, 1985 as “National Housing Week”.

    Public Law 99-124 · 99 Stat. 518 · October 16, 1985 · Original text

25. Joint Resolution To designate the month of November 1985 as “National Hospice Month”.

    Public Law 99-125 · 99 Stat. 519 · October 18, 1985 · Original text

26. Joint Resolution To designate the week of October 20, 1985, through October 26, 1985, as “National CPR Awareness Week”.

    Public Law 99-126 · 99 Stat. 520 · October 18, 1985 · Original text

27. Joint Resolution To designate the week beginning October 1, 1985, as “National Buy American Week”.

    Public Law 99-127 · 99 Stat. 521 · October 18, 1985 · Original text

28. Joint Resolution Designating February 1986 as “National Community College Month”.

    Public Law 99-128 · 99 Stat. 522 · October 22, 1985 · Original text

29. Health Professions Training Assistance Act of 1985

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs under title VII of that Act.

    Public Law 99-129 · 99 Stat. 523 · October 22, 1985 · Original text

30. An Act To provide for the use and distribution of funds awarded in docket 363 to the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute Eastern or Mississippi Sioux before the United States Court of Claims and Claims Court.

    Public Law 99-130 · 99 Stat. 549 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

31. Joint Resolution To designate October 1985 as “National Foster Grandparent Month”.

    Public Law 99-131 · 99 Stat. 553 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

32. Joint Resolution To proclaim October 23, 1985, as “A Time of Remembrance” for all victims of terrorism throughout the world.

    Public Law 99-132 · 99 Stat. 555 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

33. An Act To provide for the transfer to the Colville Business Council of any undistributed portion of amounts appropriated in satisfaction of certain judgments awarded the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation before the Indian Claims Commission.

    Public Law 99-133 · 99 Stat. 556 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

34. Joint Resolution To designate the week beginning October 6, 1985, as “National Children’s Week”.

    Public Law 99-134 · 99 Stat. 557 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

35. Joint Resolution To designate November 24, 1985, as “National Day of Fasting to Raise Funds to Combat Hunger”.

    Public Law 99-135 · 99 Stat. 558 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

36. Joint Resolution Designating the twelve-month period ending on October 28, 1986, as the “Centennial Year of Liberty in the United States”.

    Public Law 99-136 · 99 Stat. 559 · October 28, 1985 · Original text

37. Joint Resolution Designating the week beginning on October 20, 1985, as “Benign Essential Blepharospasm Awareness Week”.

    Public Law 99-137 · 99 Stat. 560 · October 30, 1985 · Original text

38. Joint Resolution To provide for the designation of October 1985, as “National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month”.

    Public Law 99-138 · 99 Stat. 561 · October 30, 1985 · Original text

39. An Act To amend section 51(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, relating to the funding of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund.

    Public Law 99-139 · 99 Stat. 562 · October 30, 1985 · Original text

40. An Act To provide that the authority to establish and administer flexible and compressed work schedules for Federal Government employees be extended through December 31, 1985.

    Public Law 99-140 · 99 Stat. 563 · October 31, 1985 · Original text

41. An Act Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-141 · 99 Stat. 564 · November 1, 1985 · Original text

42. Joint Resolution Designating November 1985 as “National Diabetes Month”.

    Public Law 99-142 · 99 Stat. 580 · November 5, 1985 · Original text

43. Joint Resolution To designate the week or November 3, 1985, through November 9, 1985, as “National Drug Abuse Education Week”.

    Public Law 99-143 · 99 Stat. 581 · November 7, 1985 · Original text

44. Joint Resolution To commend the people and the sovereign confederation of the neutral nation of Switzerland for their contributions to freedom, international peace, and understanding on the occasion of the meeting between the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union on November 19–20, 1985, in Geneva, Switzerland.

    Public Law 99-144 · 99 Stat. 582 · November 8, 1985 · Original text

45. Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986

    An Act To authorize appropriations for military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe military personnel levels for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1986, to revise and improve military compensation programs, to improve defense procurement procedures, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1986 for national security programs of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-145 · 99 Stat. 583 · November 8, 1985 · Original text

46. An Act To provide for the use and distribution of funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgments awarded to the Chippewas of Lake Superior in Dockets Numbered 18–S, 18–U, 18–C, and 18–T before the Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-146 · 99 Stat. 780 · November 11, 1985 · Original text

47. Joint Resolution Designating the week beginning October 27, 1985, as “National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week”.

    Public Law 99-147 · 99 Stat. 783 · November 12, 1985 · Original text

48. Joint Resolution Designating the week of November 11 through November 17, 1985, as “National Reye’s Syndrome Week”.

    Public Law 99-148 · 99 Stat. 784 · November 12, 1985 · Original text

49. Joint Resolution Designating the week beginning on November 10, 1985. as “National Blood Pressure Awareness Week”

    Public Law 99-149 · 99 Stat. 786 · November 12, 1985 · Original text

50. Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1985

    An Act To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act or 1938 to authorize the provision of compensatory time in lieu of overtime compensation for employees of States, political subdivisions of States, and interstate governmental agencies, to clarify the application of the Act to volunteers, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-150 · 99 Stat. 787 · November 13, 1985 · Original text

51. Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1986

    An Act Making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-151 · 99 Stat. 792 · November 13, 1985 · Original text

52. Joint Resolution Designating the week beginning November 10, 1985, as “National Women Veterans Recognition Week”.

    Public Law 99-152 · 99 Stat. 810 · November 13, 1985 · Original text

53. Joint Resolution To designate the week beginning November 24, 1985, as “National Adoption Week”.

    Public Law 99-153 · 99 Stat. 812 · November 14, 1985 · Original text

54. Joint Resolution Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1986.

    Public Law 99-154 · 99 Stat. 813 · November 14, 1985 · Original text

55. An Act To temporarily increase the limit on the public debt and to restore the investments of the Social Security Trust Funds and other trust funds.

    Public Law 99-155 · 99 Stat. 814 · November 14, 1985 · Original text

56. Joint Resolution To provide for the temporary extension of certain programs relating to housing and community development, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-156 · 99 Stat. 815 · November 15, 1985 · Original text

57. An Act To extend temporarily the dairy price support program and certain food stamp program provisions, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-157 · 99 Stat. 818 · November 15, 1985 · Original text

58. Health Research Extension Act of 1985

    An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the authorities under that Act relating to the National Institutes of Health and National Research Institutes, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-158 · 99 Stat. 820 · November 20, 1985 · Original text

59. National Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Authorization Act of 1986

    An Act To authorize appropriations to the National Science Foundation for the fiscal year 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-159 · 99 Stat. 887 · November 22, 1985 · Original text

60. Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986

    An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-160 · 99 Stat. 909 · November 25, 1985 · Original text

61. Congressional Award Amendments of 1985

    An Act To amend and extend the Congressional Award Act.

    Public Law 99-161 · 99 Stat. 934 · November 25, 1985 · Original text

62. Joint Resolution Relating to the proposed sales of arms to Jordan.

    Public Law 99-162 · 99 Stat. 937 · November 25, 1985 · Original text

63. Joint Resolution To designate November 18, 1985, as “Eugene Ormandy Appreciation Day”.

    Public Law 99-163 · 99 Stat. 938 · November 25, 1985 · Original text

64. Joint Resolution To designate November 30, 1985, as “National Mark Twain Day”.

    Public Law 99-164 · 99 Stat. 939 · November 26, 1985 · Original text

65. Joint Resolution To designate the week or December 1, 1985, through December 7, 1985, as “National Home Care Week”.

    Public Law 99-165 · 99 Stat. 940 · December 3, 1985 · Original text

66. Veterans’ Administration Health-Care Amendments of 1985

    An Act To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish, extend, and improve certain Veterans’ Administration health-care programs, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-166 · 99 Stat. 941 · December 3, 1985 · Original text

67. Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986

    An Act To authorize certain construction at military installations for fiscal year 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-167 · 99 Stat. 961 · December 3, 1985 · Original text

68. Joint Resolution To designate the week or December 1, 1985, through December 7, 1985, as “National Temporary Services Week”.

    Public Law 99-168 · 99 Stat. 1001 · December 3, 1985 · Original text

69. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986

    An Act To authorize appropriations for Fiscal year 1986 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Intelligence Community Staff, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-169 · 99 Stat. 1002 · December 4, 1985 · Original text

70. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 1986

    An Act To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, space flight, control and data communications, construction of facilities, and research and program management, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-170 · 99 Stat. 1012 · December 5, 1985 · Original text

71. An Act To authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to accept title to the Mississippi Technology Transfer Center to be constructed by the State of Mississippi at the National Space Technologies Laboratories in Hancock County, Mississippi.

    Public Law 99-171 · 99 Stat. 1019 · December 9, 1985 · Original text

72. An Act To recognize the organization known as the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861–1865.

    Public Law 99-172 · 99 Stat. 1020 · December 9, 1985 · Original text

73. Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1986

    An Act Making appropriations for military construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-173 · 99 Stat. 1024 · December 10, 1985 · Original text

74. Joint Resolution Reaffirming the friendship of the people of the United States with the people of Colombia following the devastating volcanic eruption of November 13, 1985.

    Public Law 99-174 · 99 Stat. 1033 · December 11, 1985 · Original text

75. Joint Resolution To authorize and request the President to designate the month of December 1985, as “Made in America Month”.

    Public Law 99-175 · 99 Stat. 1034 · December 11, 1985 · Original text

76. Joint Resolution Waiving the printing on parchment of the enrollment of H.J. Res. 372.

    Public Law 99-176 · 99 Stat. 1036 · December 11, 1985 · Original text

77. Joint Resolution Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.

    Public Law 99-177 · 99 Stat. 1037 · December 12, 1985 · Original text

78. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-178 · 99 Stat. 1102 · December 12, 1985 · Original text

79. Joint Resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1986.

    Public Law 99-179 · 99 Stat. 1135 · December 13, 1985 · Original text

80. the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986

    An Act Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-180 · 99 Stat. 1136 · December 13, 1985 · Original text

81. An Act To extend until December 18, 1985, the application of certain tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program.

    Public Law 99-181 · 99 Stat. 1172 · December 13, 1985 · Original text

82. An Act To extend temporarily the dairy price support program and certain food stamp program provisions, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-182 · 99 Stat. 1173 · December 13, 1985 · Original text

83. Joint Resolution Relating to the approval and implementation of the proposed agreement for nuclear cooperation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

    Public Law 99-183 · 99 Stat. 1174 · December 16, 1985 · Original text

84. Joint Resolution Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1986.

    Public Law 99-184 · 99 Stat. 1174 · December 17, 1985 · Original text

85. Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985

    An Act To authorize the minting of gold bullion coins.

    Public Law 99-185 · 99 Stat. 1174 · December 17, 1985 · Original text

86. An Act To clarity the application of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 to encourage cogeneration activities by gas utility holding company systems.

    Public Law 99-186 · 99 Stat. 1180 · December 18, 1985 · Original text

87. An Act To amend the Act of October 15, 1982, entitled “An Act to designate the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, District of Columbia, as a national historic site, and for other purposes”.

    Public Law 99-187 · 99 Stat. 1181 · December 18, 1985 · Original text

88. Joint Resolution Waiving the printing on parchment of enrolled bills and joint resolutions during the remainder of the first session of the Ninety-ninth Congress.

    Public Law 99-188 · 99 Stat. 1183 · December 18, 1985 · Original text

89. An Act To extend until December 19, 1985, the application of certain tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program.

    Public Law 99-189 · 99 Stat. 1184 · December 18, 1985 · Original text

90. Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1986

    Joint Resolution Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1986. and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-190 · 99 Stat. 1185 · December 19, 1985 · Original text

91. An Act Relating to the authorization of appropriations for certain components of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

    Public Law 99-191 · 99 Stat. 1327 · December 19, 1985 · Original text

92. An Act To designate the pedestrian walkway crossing the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park as the “Goodloe E. Byron Memorial Pedestrian Walk-way”.

    Public Law 99-192 · 99 Stat. 1329 · December 19, 1985 · Original text

93. Joint Resolution To designate the year of 1986 as the “Year of the Flag”.

    Public Law 99-193 · 99 Stat. 1330 · December 19, 1985 · Original text

94. Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1985

    An Act To amend the National Foundation on the Arte and the Humanities Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-194 · 99 Stat. 1332 · December 20, 1985 · Original text

95. An Act To amend the Panama Canal Act of 1979 with respect to the payment of interest on the investment of the United States.

    Public Law 99-195 · 99 Stat. 1349 · December 23, 1985 · Original text

96. An Act To convert the temporary authority to allow Federal employees to work on a flexible or compressed schedule under title 5, United States Code, into permanent authority.

    Public Law 99-196 · 99 Stat. 1350 · December 23, 1985 · Original text

97. Kentucky Wilderness Act of 1985

    An Act To designate certain national forest system lands in the State of Kentucky for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, to release other forest lands for multiple use management, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-197 · 99 Stat. 1351 · December 23, 1985 · Original text

98. Food Security Act of 1985

    An Act To extend and revise agricultural price support and related programs, to provide for agricultural export, resource conservation, farm credit, and agricultural research and related programs, to continue food assistance to low-income persons, to ensure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and for other purposes.

    Public Law 99-198 · 99 Stat. 1354 · December 23, 1985 · Original text

99. An Act To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release the condition requiring that a parcel of land conveyed to New York State be used for public purposes and to convey United States mineral interests in the parcel to New York State.

    Public Law 99-199 · 99 Stat. 1661 · December 23, 1985 · Original text

100. An Act To clear title to certain lands along the California-Nevada boundary.

     Public Law 99-200 · 99 Stat. 1663 · December 23, 1985 · Original text