House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To reauthorize the dairy indemnity program.
Sponsor: Rep. Charles Stenholm D-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 4, 1997
- Committee actionSep 24, 1997
- Passed HouseOct 21, 1997 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 22, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1789.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1789, A bill to reauthorize the dairy indemnity program” on October 1, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 24, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 1, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10417
- CBO publication date
- October 1, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1789, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1789
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
39d1d4cd1d3dabc2c88983c56143b8b2089fe50495784f131aae9d646313f6da
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-294 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Agriculture Committee on October 2, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 2, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/294
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1789, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1789
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
39d1d4cd1d3dabc2c88983c56143b8b2089fe50495784f131aae9d646313f6da
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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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Charles Stenholm.
- H.R. 2366 (105th) Census of Agriculture Act of 1997
- H.R. 4508 (105th) Temporary Emergency Agriculture Relief Act of 1998
- H.R. 4150 (105th) 1998 International Monetary Fund Appropriations Act
- H.R. 2444 (105th) Disapproving the cancellations transmitted by the President on August 11, 1997, regarding Public Law 105-34.
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.