House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedSep 17, 1997
- Committee actionSep 23, 1997
- Passed HouseSep 29, 1997 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 30, 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. 2487.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2487, Child Support Incentive Act of 1997” on September 26, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 23, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10401
- CBO publication date
- September 26, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2487, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2487
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
72ad4d55962b7bdbadb7093e730a547c726609529092a21c33c6dc47055e6790
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. 105-272 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on September 26, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 26, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/272
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2487, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2487
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
72ad4d55962b7bdbadb7093e730a547c726609529092a21c33c6dc47055e6790
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2487, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. E. Shaw.
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- H.R. 1048 (105th) Welfare Reform Technical Corrections Act of 1997
- H.Res. 327 (105th) Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
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.