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The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president for the Congress's first seventeen days, did not enact any laws before his presidential term expired.
1st: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2022 2nd: January 3, 2022 – January 3, 2023. The bills of the 117th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 117th United States Congress. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two ...
Mike Johnson (R) (October 25, 2023–) Sessions. 1st: January 3, 2023 – TBD. The bills of the 118th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 118th United States Congress. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses ...
The 117th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency and the first two years of Joe Biden's ...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), (H.R. 3684) is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. It was introduced in the House as the INVEST in America Act and nicknamed the ...
The Fairness In Women's Sports Act is a common title for legislation passed in Idaho, Florida, and Arkansas that restricts participation in interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, club athletic teams, and any sports sponsored by a public school or university based on the biological sex of the individual. The legislation was introduced in ...
Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. The bill was sponsored by Delegate Alfred W. Harris , a Black attorney whose offices were in Petersburg, but who lived in and represented Dinwiddie County in the General Assembly.
Initiatives and referendums—collectively known as "ballot measures", "propositions", or simply "questions"—differ from most legislation passed by representative democracies; ordinarily, an elected legislative bodydevelops and passes laws. Initiatives and referendums, by contrast, allow citizens to vote directly on legislation.