House bill · 105th Congress · Public Law 105-187
Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998
Became law on Jun 24, 1998.
Sponsor: Rep. Henry Hyde R-ILWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 7, 1998
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseMay 12, 1998 · 402–16
- Passed SenateJun 5, 1998 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentJun 18, 1998
- Became lawJun 24, 1998
Latest action: Jun 24, 1998 — Became Public Law No: 105-187.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3811.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3811, Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998” on June 9, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on June 5, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 9, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10872
- CBO publication date
- June 9, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3811, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/3811
- 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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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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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.