House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedApr 30, 1998
- Committee actionSep 24, 1998
- Passed HouseOct 7, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 8, 1998 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3783.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3783, Child Online Protection Act” on October 1, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Commerce on September 24, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 1, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11227
- CBO publication date
- October 1, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3783, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3783
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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. 105-775 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on October 6, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 6, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/775
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3783, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3783
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
17b6d8484b876b5d9fe7d5e6966dbc40fa4a1ba2cb1ad30d04a11df26c09aa7b
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3783, 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
65 cosponsors — 59 Republicans, 6 Democrats
7 of 65 cosponsors (11%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Dan Burton (R-IN), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), H. Callahan (R-AL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Barbara Cubin (R-WY), Pat Danner (D-MO), Nathan Deal (R-GA), John Doolittle (R-CA), Phil English (R-PA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Jon Fox (R-PA), Bob Franks (R-NJ), Elizabeth Furse (D-OR), Greg Ganske (R-IA), Paul Gillmor (R-OH), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY), Bart Gordon (D-TN), James Greenwood (R-PA), Ralph Hall (R-TX), David Hobson (R-OH), Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), Ernest Istook (R-OK) and 35 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Michael Oxley.
- H.R. 1262 (105th) Securities and Exchange Commission Authorization Act of 1997
- H.R. 3000 (105th) Superfund Reform Act
- H.R. 1053 (105th) Common Cents Stock Pricing Act of 1997
- H.R. 954 (105th) International Telecommunications Investment Clarification Act
- H.R. 4759 (105th) Communications Personnel Paperwork Reduction Act of 1998
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.