House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionApr 23, 1997
- Passed HouseMay 14, 1997 · 293–132
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 15, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2.
- Committee reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 105-76 ↗; H. Rept. 105-76,Part 2 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on April 29, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 29, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/76
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/76 - Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 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
7 cosponsors — 7 Republicans
0 of 7 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Bob Barr (R-GA), Michael Castle (R-DE), Rick Hill (R-MT), Bob Ney (R-OH), Michael Oxley (R-OH), Deborah Pryce (R-OH), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Rick Lazio.
- H.R. 217 (105th) Homeless Housing Programs Consolidation and Flexibility Act
- H.Con.Res. 208 (105th) Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding access to affordable housing and expansion of homeownership opportunities.
- H.R. 3899 (105th) American Homeownership Act of 1998
- H.Res. 329 (105th) Providing for the concurrence by the House with an amendment to the Senate amendment to the House amendments to S. 562.
- H.R. 219 (105th) Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 1998
- H.R. 3779 (105th) Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act of 1998
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.