Small Business Programs Reauthorization and Amendments Acts of 1997

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2261.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2261, Small Business Programs Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1997” on September 5, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on July 30, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 5, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10357

  CBO publication date

  September 5, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2261, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2261

  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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• 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. 105-246 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Small Business Committee on September 8, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 8, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/246

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2261, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2261

  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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  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

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