To improve the enforcement of child support obligations in both intrastate and interstate cases by requiring the imposition and execution of liens against the property of persons who owe overdue support.

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

25 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 14 Democrats

14 of 25 cosponsors (56%) are from the other party.

Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Peter Blute (R-MA), Bill Emerson (R-MO), Tillie Fowler (R-FL), Barney Frank (D-MA), Earl Hilliard (D-AL), Andrew Jacobs (D-IN), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Peter King (R-NY), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Thomas Manton (D-NY), Edward Markey (D-MA), Martin Meehan (D-MA), Constance Morella (R-MD), Richard Neal (D-MA), John Olver (D-MA), Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Patricia Schroeder (D-CO), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Christopher Shays (R-CT), Robert Underwood (D-GU), Fred Upton (R-MI), Gerald Weller (R-IL).

More from the sponsor

Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Peter Torkildsen.

• H.R. 1358 (104th) To require the Secretary of Commerce to convey to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the National Marine Fisheries Service laboratory…
• H.R. 2715 (104th) Paperwork Elimination Act of 1996
• H.R. 2959 (104th) To repeal the requirement enacted in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 for the mandatory discharge or retirement…
• H.R. 2447 (104th) To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit nonparty multicandidate political committees from making contributions to…
• H.R. 2471 (104th) To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the amount that a nonparty multicandidate political committee may contribute…
• H.R. 2188 (104th) To establish in the Department of the Interior the Essex National Heritage Area Commission, and for other purposes.

Sponsor’s state and district

Massachusetts in Congress · MA-6 district