House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJun 16, 1995
- Committee actionJul 13, 1995
- Passed HouseSep 18, 1995 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 18, 1995 — Laid on the table. See S. 641 for further action.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1872.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-245 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on September 14, 1995.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 14, 1995 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/245
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1872, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/1872
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4f8772a206056c9fc464eed55c148c028692481008f60b7720c806cf7dee21d9
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1872, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 29, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
90 cosponsors — 16 Republicans, 73 Democrats, 1 independent
74 of 90 cosponsors (82%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), John Baldacci (D-ME), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Anthony Beilenson (D-CA), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Thomas Bliley (R-VA), Robert Borski (D-PA), George Brown (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), John Bryant (D-TX), Ronald Coleman (D-TX), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), John Dingell (D-MI), Julian Dixon (D-CA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Floyd Flake (D-NY), Michael Flanagan (R-IL), Mark Foley (R-FL), Jon Fox (R-PA), Barney Frank (D-MA) and 60 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Michael Bilirakis.
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- H.R. 65 (104th) Military Retirement Equity Act of 1995
- H.R. 109 (104th) To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that the effective date for discontinuance of compensation and pension paid by the…
- H.R. 303 (104th) To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have service-connected disabilities to receive…
- H.R. 104 (104th) Subsidy Termination for Overdue Payments 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.