House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionJun 17, 1998
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 21, 1998 — Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2278-2279)
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 371.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 371, Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1998” on June 25, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 17, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 25, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10900
- CBO publication date
- June 25, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 371, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/371
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
77 cosponsors — 27 Republicans, 50 Democrats
25 of 77 cosponsors (32%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), James Barcia (D-MI), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), David Bonior (D-MI), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Robert Borski (D-PA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Lois Capps (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Gary Condit (D-CA), John Conyers (D-MI), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Cal Dooley (D-CA), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Thomas Foglietta (D-PA), Barney Frank (D-MA), Elizabeth Furse (D-OR), George Gekas (R-PA), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Wally Herger (R-CA), Tim Holden (D-PA), Steve Horn (R-CA), Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and 47 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.