Senate bill · 105th Congress · Public Law 105-379
An Act to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require food stamp State agencies to take certain actions to ensure that food stamp coupons are not issued for deceased individuals, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of options for the design, development, implementation, and operation of a national database to track participation in Federal means-tested public assistance programs, and for other purposes.
Became law on Nov 12, 1998.
Sponsor: Sen. Richard Lugar R-INWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 10, 1998
- Committee actionOct 14, 1998
- Passed SenateOct 14, 1998 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseOct 15, 1998 · 386–1
- To the PresidentNov 4, 1998
- Became lawNov 12, 1998
Latest action: Nov 12, 1998 — Became Public Law No: 105-379.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1733.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1733, A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require food stamp State agencies to take certain actions to ensure that food stamp coupons are not issued for deceased individuals, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of...” on October 19, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by Congress on October 15, 1998”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 19, 1998 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11262
- CBO publication date
- October 19, 1998
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1733, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/1733
- 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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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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
0 of 1 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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- S. 2116 (105th) USDA Information Technology Reform and Year-2000 Compliance Act of 1998
- S. 2511 (105th) Federal Meat and Poultry Employees Pay Act of 1998
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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.