House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation.
Sponsor: Rep. Bill Goodling R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 6, 1997
- Committee actionJan 28, 1998
- Passed HouseFeb 5, 1998 · 242–174
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 5, 1998 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2846.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2846, A bill to prohibit spending Federal education funds on national testing without explicit and specific legislation” on January 29, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on January 28, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 29, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10621
- CBO publication date
- January 29, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2846, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2846
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-409 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Education and Workforce Committee on January 30, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported January 30, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/409
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2846, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/2846
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1cfbc8bbfd472b1d600f74e01ed43c15bd612ed9771f53de74da90761e8d627f
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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
114 cosponsors — 111 Republicans, 3 Democrats
4 of 114 cosponsors (4%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Dick Armey (R-TX), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Charles Bass (R-NH), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Thomas Bliley (R-VA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boehner (R-OH), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Dan Burton (R-IN), H. Callahan (R-AL), Charles Canady (R-FL), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Mac Collins (R-GA), Larry Combest (R-TX), Christopher Cox (R-CA), Philip Crane (R-IL), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Barbara Cubin (R-WY), Randy Cunningham (R-CA) and 84 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bill Goodling.
- H.R. 5 (105th) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997
- H.R. 3246 (105th) Fairness for Small Business and Employees Act of 1998
- H.R. 2614 (105th) Reading Excellence Act
- H.Res. 507 (105th) Providing special investigative authority for the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
- H.Con.Res. 202 (105th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should acknowledge the importance of at-home parents and should not…
- H.Res. 214 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Education should suspend any and all planning, development…
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.