House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Homeless Housing Programs Consolidation and Flexibility Act
Sponsor: Rep. Rick Lazio R-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionNov 5, 1997
- Passed HouseMar 3, 1998 · 386–23
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 4, 1998 — 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. 217.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 217, Homeless Housing Programs Consolidation and Flexibility Act” on February 23, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services on December 19, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 23, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10646
- CBO publication date
- February 23, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 217, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/217
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
942cad5c71b69eb1e9f4aaf7b26d98ce0652ed6319a9677e1d6331bb48cf147e
PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
- Committee reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 105-407 ↗; H. Rept. 105-407,Part 2 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on March 3, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 3, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/407
https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/407 - Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 217, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/217
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
942cad5c71b69eb1e9f4aaf7b26d98ce0652ed6319a9677e1d6331bb48cf147e
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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
5 cosponsors — 5 Republicans
0 of 5 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Bob Barr (R-GA), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Michael Castle (R-DE), Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), Bob Ney (R-OH).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Rick Lazio.
- H.R. 2 (105th) Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1997
- 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.