House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
International Child Labor Relief Act of 1998
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedAug 6, 1998
- Committee actionOct 2, 1998
- Passed HouseOct 8, 1998 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 9, 1998 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4506.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4506, International Child Labor Relief Act of 1998” on October 5, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on October 2, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 5, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11226
- CBO publication date
- October 5, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4506, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/4506
- 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
14 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 1 independent
6 of 14 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
Charles Canady (R-FL), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Lane Evans (D-IL), Jon Fox (R-PA), Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Tom Lantos (D-CA), James Moran (D-VA), Joseph Pitts (R-PA), John Porter (R-IL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mark Souder (R-IN), Frank Wolf (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith.
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- H.Con.Res. 304 (105th) Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the culpability of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide…
- H.R. 2195 (105th) Laogai Slave Labor Products Act of 1997
- H.Res. 364 (105th) Urging the introduction and passage of a resolution on the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China at the 54th Session of…
- H.Res. 562 (105th) Concerning properties wrongfully expropriated by formerly totalitarian governments.
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.