House bill · 101st Congress · Did not become law
High Definition Television Competitiveness Act of 1989
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 2, 1989
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 27, 1989 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law.
Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
33 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 21 Democrats
22 of 33 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Chester Atkins (D-MA), Helen Bentley (R-MD), James Bilbray (D-NV), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), George Brown (D-CA), Jack Buechner (R-MO), Jim Chapman (D-TX), Cardiss Collins (D-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Mervyn Dymally (D-CA), Walter Fauntroy (D-DC), James Florio (D-NJ), Jamie Fuster (D-PR), Robert Garcia (D-NY), Augustus Hawkins (D-CA), Jimmy Hayes (R-LA), George Hochbrueckner (D-NY), Richard Lehman (D-CA), Mel Levine (D-CA), William Lipinski (D-IL), Ronald Machtley (R-RI), Dave McCurdy (D-OK), John Miller (R-WA), Stanford Parris (R-VA), John Rhodes (R-AZ), Bill Richardson (D-NM), Joseph Skeen (R-NM), Lamar Smith (R-TX), Lawrence Smith (D-FL), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) and 3 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 101st Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Ritter.
- H.J.Res. 204 (101st) To designate October 1989, as "National Quality Month".
- H.J.Res. 493 (101st) Designating June 14, 1990, as "Baltic Freedom Day", and for other purposes.
- H.R. 5453 (101st) Airline Passengers Defense Act of 1990
- H.Con.Res. 366 (101st) Expressing the sense of the Congress that other countries benefiting from the deployment of United States military forces in Saudi Arabia…
- H.R. 2654 (101st) Taxpayer and Environment Protection Act of 1989
- H.R. 1636 (101st) Uniform Product Liability Act of 1989
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 30, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.