Senate bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Family Farmer Protection Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJul 16, 1997
- Committee actionOct 9, 1997
- Passed SenateOct 30, 1997 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 13, 1997 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1024.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1024, Family Farmer Protection Act of 1997” on October 24, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 24, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10503
- CBO publication date
- October 24, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1024, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1024
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- 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 August 10, 2026). 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
6 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 4 Democrats
4 of 6 cosponsors (67%) are from the other party.
Thomas Daschle (D-SD), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Thomas Harkin (D-IA), Herbert Kohl (D-WI), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), James Thurmond (R-SC).
More from the sponsor
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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.