To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1493.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1493, A bill to require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes” on October 10, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 9, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 10, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10460

  CBO publication date

  October 10, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1493, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1493

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-338 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on October 23, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 23, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/338

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1493, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1493

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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