To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the transfer to State and local governments of certain surplus property for use for law enforcement or public safety purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 404.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 404, A bill to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the transfer to state and local governments of certain surplus property...” on October 9, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on September 30, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 9, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10455

  CBO publication date

  October 9, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 404, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/404

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  084205219f2b40240a01f5e8ff49fbd5351e094891464215e4a40f4029e5438b

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 404, last updated March 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.