Senate bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 5, 1997
- Committee actionNov 6, 1997
- Passed SenateNov 13, 1997 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 12, 1998 — See H.R.3811.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1371.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1371, Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1997” on November 14, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on November 10, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 14, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10560
- CBO publication date
- November 14, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1371, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1371
- 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.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1371, 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.
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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
3 of 3 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Spencer Abraham (R-MI), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Michael DeWine (R-OH).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Herbert Kohl.
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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.