House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedDec 5, 1995
- Committee actionMar 29, 1996
- Passed HouseApr 24, 1996 · 418–0
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 25, 1996 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2715.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-520 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Small Business Committee on April 16, 1996.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 16, 1996 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/520
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2715, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/2715
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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.
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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
14 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 14 cosponsors (7%) are from the other party.
Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Dick Chrysler (R-MI), Thomas Ewing (R-IL), Walter Jones (R-NC), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Donald Manzullo (R-IL), Martin Meehan (D-MA), Jack Metcalf (R-WA), Jan Meyers (R-KS), Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Linda Smith (R-WA), Jim Talent (R-MO), Gerald Weller (R-IL), Bill Zeliff (R-NH).
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. 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. 1029 (104th) To improve the enforcement of child support obligations in both intrastate and interstate cases by requiring the imposition and execution…
- 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
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.