To provide for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals possessing firearms, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 424.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 424, A bill to provide for increased mandatory minimum sentences for criminals possessing firearms, and for other purposes” on September 19, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 9, 1997”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10373

  CBO publication date

  September 19, 1997

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 424, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/424

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9eda7c7dfcb43879dbc492bf209a50b9b5d331778cae69330906565a0d22b063

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-344 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on October 24, 1997.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 24, 1997 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/344

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 424, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/424

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  9eda7c7dfcb43879dbc492bf209a50b9b5d331778cae69330906565a0d22b063

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 424, last updated August 10, 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.