House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMay 16, 1996
- Committee actionJul 17, 1996
- Passed HouseSep 4, 1996 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 5, 1996 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3487.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-717 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on July 29, 1996.Source: Congress.gov, reported July 29, 1996 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/717
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3487, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/3487
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3487, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 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
18 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 7 Democrats
7 of 18 cosponsors (39%) are from the other party.
Anthony Beilenson (D-CA), Tom Campbell (R-CA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Eva Clayton (D-NC), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Sam Farr (D-CA), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Porter Goss (R-FL), Walter Jones (R-NC), James Longley (R-ME), John Porter (R-IL), Frank Riggs (R-CA), Andrea Seastrand (R-CA), Peter Torkildsen (R-MA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. H. Saxton.
- H.R. 1965 (104th) Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1996
- H.R. 543 (104th) National Marine Sanctuaries Preservation Act
- H.R. 1594 (104th) To place restrictions on the promotion by the Department of Labor and other Federal agencies and instrumentalities of economically…
- H.R. 1139 (104th) Striped Bass Conservation Act Amendments of 1995
- H.R. 2160 (104th) Cooperative Fisheries Management Act of 1996
- H.R. 4139 (104th) Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act Amendments of 1996
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.