Public Law P.L. 115-426 — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Act of 2018

Public Law P.L. 115-426 — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Act of 2018, enacted 2019-01-08. Every recorded vote below is cited to the official government record.

The instruments

Public Law P.L. 115-426 — Cold Case Files (Release)

Forced release of unsolved civil-rights-era murder files — created a public records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board empowered to overrule an agency that wants to keep a record closed.

Enacted · Introduced in the Senate 2018-07-10; reported by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 2018-12-10 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; the committee substitute was withdrawn and SA 4153 agreed to by unanimous consent, and the bill PASSED THE SENATE BY VOICE VOTE on 2018-12-17 — so no senator is on the record either way. Received in the House 2018-12-19 and passed 2018-12-21 under suspension of the rules, 376-6, roll call 482. Presented to the President 2018-12-27; became P.L. 115-426 on 2019-01-08. Source for every step: the bill's own status record at https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s/BILLSTATUS-115s3191.xml · The official record

Where Cold Case Files (Release) was put to a vote

StageThe questionDateTallyWhat we could not get
Senate floorOn passageThe chamber acted with no recorded vote, so no member is on the record on this measure at this stage.
House floorOn passage
House — other chamber passed as isOn the amendment between the houses

Sources

  1. The official record this row was taken from (www.govinfo.gov)
  2. Full text of S. 3191 (www.congress.gov)
  3. Status, actions and votes (www.congress.gov)
  4. 44 U.S.C. § 2107, as codified (uscode.house.gov)