House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood products.
Sponsor: Rep. Joseph Pitts R-PAWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 1998
- Committee actionJul 22, 1998
- Passed HouseSep 28, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 5, 1998 — Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4257.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4257, A Bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit certain youth to perform certain work with wood products” on July 28, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on July 22, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 28, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11006
- CBO publication date
- July 28, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4257, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/4257
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 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 July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4257, last updated July 21, 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
14 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 3 Democrats
4 of 14 cosponsors (29%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Phil English (R-PA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), George Gekas (R-PA), Bill Goodling (R-PA), Ron Kind (D-WI), Ron Klink (D-PA), Matthew Martinez (R-CA), David McIntosh (R-IN), John Peterson (R-PA), Charles Pickering (R-MS), Ralph Regula (R-OH), Mark Souder (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joseph Pitts.
- H.R. 3248 (105th) Dollars to the Classroom Act
- H.Res. 139 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Education, States, and local education agencies should spend a…
- H.Res. 417 (105th) Regarding the importance of fathers in the raising and development of their children.
- H.Res. 109 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that American families deserve tax relief.
- H.R. 3103 (105th) Family Reinvestment and Shaping Our Future Act
- H.R. 4778 (105th) To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemption for houseparents from the minimum wage and maximum hours…
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.