House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law

Laogai Slave Labor Products Act of 1997

H.R. 2195Introduced Jul 17, 1997Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Smith R-NJ

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Where it went

IntroducedJul 17, 1997
Committee actionOct 1, 1997
Passed HouseNov 5, 1997 · 419–2
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Nov 6, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2195.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2195, A bill to provide for certain measures to increase monitoring of products that are made with forced labor” on October 3, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on October 1, 1997”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 3, 1997 ↗
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10425
CBO publication date
October 3, 1997
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 2195, 105th Congress
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https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2195
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 21, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 28, 2026
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Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-366 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on October 31, 1997.
Source: Congress.gov, reported October 31, 1997 ↗
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Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 2195, 105th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2195
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 21, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 28, 2026
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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

27 cosponsors — 19 Republicans, 8 Democrats

8 of 27 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.

David Bonior (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN), Christopher Cox (R-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Bob Filner (D-CA), Elizabeth Furse (D-OR), Jim Gibbons (R-NV), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Henry Hyde (R-IL), Sam Johnson (R-TX), Peter King (R-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA), David McIntosh (R-IN), John Porter (R-IL), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Ed Royce (R-CA), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Gerald Solomon (R-NY), Floyd Spence (R-SC), James Traficant (D-OH), Wes Watkins (R-OK), J. Watts (R-OK), Gerald Weller (R-IL), Frank Wolf (R-VA).

More from the sponsor

Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith.

Sponsor’s state and district

New Jersey in Congress · NJ-4 district

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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.