House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionJul 15, 1998
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Aug 7, 1998 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 389.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 219.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 219, Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 1998” on September 23, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services on August 7, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 23, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11164
- CBO publication date
- September 23, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 219, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/219
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3688d2848e26e30a77f241a68bb9a83753762dd97585d4d3c0a864708c47515a
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 reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-687 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on August 8, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported August 8, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/687
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 219, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/219
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3688d2848e26e30a77f241a68bb9a83753762dd97585d4d3c0a864708c47515a
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 219, last updated April 7, 2025. 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
45 cosponsors — 25 Republicans, 20 Democrats
20 of 45 cosponsors (44%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Howard Berman (D-CA), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Tom Campbell (R-CA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Michael Castle (R-DE), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Larry Combest (R-TX), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Jay Dickey (R-AR), Cal Dooley (D-CA), Jo Emerson (R-MO), John Ensign (R-NV), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Jon Fox (R-PA), Bob Franks (R-NJ), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Martin Frost (D-TX), Samuel Gejdenson (D-CT), Christopher John (D-LA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and 15 more.
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.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. 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.