Senate bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 28, 1998
- Committee actionFeb 4, 1998
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 2, 1998 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 318.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1579.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1579, Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998” on February 26, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on February 4, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 26, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10643
- CBO publication date
- February 26, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1579, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1579
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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: S. Rept. 105-166 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on March 2, 1998.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 2, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/166
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1579, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1579
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
11 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 7 Democrats, 1 independent
7 of 11 cosponsors (64%) are from the other party.
Jesse Bingaman (D-NM), John Chafee (R-RI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), William Frist (R-TN), Thomas Harkin (D-IA), James Jeffords (I-VT), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Daniel Moynihan (D-NY), John Reed (D-RI), Paul Wellstone (D-MN).
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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.