House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offenders Registration Improvements Act of 1997
Sponsor: Rep. Bill McCollum R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 20, 1997
- Committee actionSep 9, 1997
- Passed HouseSep 23, 1997 · 415–2
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 24, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1683.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1683, Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offenders Registration Improvements Act of 1997” on September 18, 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, September 18, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10377
- CBO publication date
- September 18, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1683, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1683
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
367e5789c2a40ee12a81743300c77159317c2463854e235f1394d7dd8303faab
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-256 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on September 18, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 18, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/256
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1683, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1683
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
367e5789c2a40ee12a81743300c77159317c2463854e235f1394d7dd8303faab
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1683, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 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
15 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 15 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Michael Castle (R-DE), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Nathan Deal (R-GA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Martin Frost (D-TX), Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Nick Lampson (D-TX), Charles Norwood (R-GA), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Vince Snowbarger (R-KS).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bill McCollum.
- H.R. 3494 (105th) Protection of Children From Sexual Predators Act of 1998
- H.R. 2464 (105th) To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt internationally adopted children under age 10 from the immunization requirement.
- H.R. 3565 (105th) Care for Police Survivors Act of 1998
- H.R. 924 (105th) Victim Rights Clarification Act of 1997
- H.R. 4284 (105th) To authorize the Government of India to establish a memorial to honor Mahatma Gandhi in the District of Columbia.
- H.R. 1840 (105th) Law Enforcement Technology Advertisement Clarification Act of 1997
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.