House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Bilingual Voting Requirements Repeal Act of 1996
Sponsor: Rep. John Porter R-ILWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 4, 1995
- Committee actionJul 16, 1996
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 31, 1996 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 389.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 351.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-728 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on July 31, 1996.Source: Congress.gov, reported July 31, 1996 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/728
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 351, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/351
- 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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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
51 cosponsors — 48 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 51 cosponsors (6%) are from the other party.
Bill Archer (R-TX), Bill Baker (R-CA), Richard Baker (R-LA), Bob Barr (R-GA), Anthony Beilenson (D-CA), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Sonny Bono (R-CA), Ed Bryant (R-TN), H. Callahan (R-AL), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Barbara Cubin (R-WY), Tom DeLay (R-TX), John Doolittle (R-CA), Thomas Ewing (R-IL), David Funderburk (R-NC), Porter Goss (R-FL), Melton Hancock (R-MO), Doc Hastings (R-WA), Wally Herger (R-CA), Martin Hoke (R-OH), Steve Horn (R-CA), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), Walter Jones (R-NC), Jay Kim (R-CA), Peter King (R-NY), Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), Ray LaHood (R-IL), William Lipinski (D-IL) and 21 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 2127 (104th) Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996
- H.R. 3755 (104th) Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997
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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.