House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMar 12, 1998
- Committee actionJul 29, 1998
- Passed HouseSep 15, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 16, 1998 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3445.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3445, Oceans Act of 1998” on August 3, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 29, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 3, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11038
- CBO publication date
- August 3, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3445, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3445
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b77bdfd82ef0b2483060709813d6a5bf3fe6074f4cbd783016f65009d48cce22
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. 105-718 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 15, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 15, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/718
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3445, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3445
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b77bdfd82ef0b2483060709813d6a5bf3fe6074f4cbd783016f65009d48cce22
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3445, 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
6 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 2 Democrats
1 of 6 cosponsors (17%) are from the other party.
Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Michael Forbes (D-NY), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), E. Shaw (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. H. Saxton.
- H.R. 2807 (105th) Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 1998
- H.R. 1787 (105th) Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997
- H.R. 1658 (105th) Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act
- H.R. 1856 (105th) National Wildlife Refuge System Volunteer and Community Partnership Enhancement Act of 1998
- H.R. 3461 (105th) To approve a governing international fishery agreement between the United States and the Republic of Poland.
- H.R. 437 (105th) National Sea Grant College Program Reauthorization 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.