To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, provide tax relief for farmers and small businesses, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4738.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4738, A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, provide tax relief for farmers and small businesses, and for other purposes” on October 9, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on October 9, 1998, with two modifications”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 9, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11247

  CBO publication date

  October 9, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4738, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/4738

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c71dcf03816ee1b8bc13322ddf3128de4a2f1104435329d5e189f9e723c62211

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-817 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on October 12, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 12, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/817

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4738, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/4738

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c71dcf03816ee1b8bc13322ddf3128de4a2f1104435329d5e189f9e723c62211

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4738, last updated April 7, 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.