House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
To provide that cases challenging the constitutionality of measures passed by State referendum be heard by a 3-judge court.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 8, 1995
- Committee actionJun 7, 1995
- Passed HouseSep 28, 1995 · 266–159
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 29, 1995 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1170.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-179 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on July 11, 1995.Source: Congress.gov, reported July 11, 1995 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/179
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1170, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/1170
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
46 cosponsors — 46 Republicans
0 of 46 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Bill Baker (R-CA), Richard Baker (R-LA), Bob Barr (R-GA), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Ed Bryant (R-TN), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Howard Coble (R-NC), Christopher Cox (R-CA), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Tom DeLay (R-TX), John Doolittle (R-CA), Robert Dornan (R-CA), David Dreier (R-CA), Michael Flanagan (R-IL), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), George Gekas (R-PA), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Melton Hancock (R-MO), Frederick Heineman (R-NC), Wally Herger (R-CA), Martin Hoke (R-OH), Steve Horn (R-CA), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Henry Hyde (R-IL), Bob Inglis (R-SC), Jay Kim (R-CA) and 16 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 2602 (104th) Imported Food Labeling Act of 1995
- H.R. 2495 (104th) To expand the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transfer excess personal property of the Department of Defense to support law…
- H.R. 3422 (104th) Fairness and Voluntary Arbitration Act of 1996
- H.R. 2759 (104th) Furlough Prevention Act of 1995
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.