House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program through fiscal year 2000.
Sponsor: Rep. F. Sensenbrenner R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 8, 1997
- Committee actionSep 17, 1997
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 23, 1997 — Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science. H. Rept. 105-259, Part I.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2429.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2429, A bill to reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program through fiscal year 2000” on September 19, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Science on September 17, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10374
- CBO publication date
- September 19, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2429, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2429
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
25f334ba5f55638e2e3838b844abd243b6555b59a1dff359b94aae960c10c436
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-259 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Science, Space, and Technology Committee on September 23, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 23, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/259
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2429, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2429
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
25f334ba5f55638e2e3838b844abd243b6555b59a1dff359b94aae960c10c436
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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
8 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 8 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), George Brown (D-CA), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Bart Gordon (D-TN), John LaFalce (D-NY), Constance Morella (R-MD), Glenn Poshard (D-IL), Jim Talent (R-MO).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. F. Sensenbrenner.
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- H.R. 3332 (105th) Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998
- H.R. 1903 (105th) Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997
- H.Res. 578 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the print of the Committee on Science entitled "Unlocking Our Future: Toward a…
- H.Res. 572 (105th) Providing for the consideration of the bill H.R. 1702 and the Senate amendment thereto.
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.