House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 relating to the payment of wages to employees who use employer owned vehicles.
Sponsor: Rep. Harris Fawell R-ILWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 14, 1995
- Committee actionMar 21, 1996
- Passed HouseMay 23, 1996 · 281–144
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 23, 1996 — Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 440, the House appended the text of H.R. 1227 as passed by the House to H.R. 3448. See H.R. 3448 for further action. (consideration: CR H5544)
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1227.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-585 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on May 20, 1996.Source: Congress.gov, reported May 20, 1996 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/585
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1227, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/1227
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 23, 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
21 cosponsors — 18 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 21 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Bill Archer (R-TX), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Robert Cramer (D-AL), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Eliot Engel (D-NY), David Funderburk (R-NC), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), James Greenwood (R-PA), Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), Andrew Jacobs (D-IN), Sam Johnson (R-TX), John Linder (R-GA), Jan Meyers (R-KS), Dan Miller (R-FL), Charles Norwood (R-GA), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI), James Walsh (R-NY), Dave Weldon (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Harris Fawell.
- H.R. 1225 (104th) Court Reporter Fair Labor Amendments of 1995
- H.R. 849 (104th) Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1995
- H.R. 995 (104th) ERISA Targeted Health Insurance Reform Act of 1996
- H.R. 3580 (104th) Worker Right to Know Act
- H.R. 3211 (104th) Truth in Employment Act of 1996
- H.R. 246 (104th) To repeal the Service Contract Act of 1965.
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.