Senate bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1995
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 25, 1995
- Committee actionJul 19, 1995
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 30, 1995 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 181.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 856.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 104-135 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on August 30, 1995.Source: Congress.gov, reported August 30, 1995 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/SRPT/135
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 856, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/s/856
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 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
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Claiborne Pell (D-RI), Alan Simpson (R-WY).
More from the sponsor
Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. James Jeffords.
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- S. 1225 (104th) American Heritage Corridor Study Act of 1996
- S. 1226 (104th) A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a study of battlefields of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, to…
- S. 932 (104th) Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 1995
- S. 1969 (104th) Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act 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.