A bill to protect the sanctity of contracts and leases entered into by surface patent holders with respect to coalbed methane gas.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2500.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2500, A bill to protect the sanctity of contracts and leases entered into by surface patent holders with respect to coalbed methane gas” on October 14, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 25, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 14, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11282

  CBO publication date

  October 14, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2500, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/2500

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe19f2b022770ad1ee2f42145c500af36597f877bd727fd1a9b1cb7d272ceaa3

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2500, An act to protect the sanctity of contracts and leases entered into by surface patent holders with respect to coalbed methane gas” on October 21, 1998. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on October 15, 1998”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 21, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11296

  CBO publication date

  October 21, 1998

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2500, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/2500

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe19f2b022770ad1ee2f42145c500af36597f877bd727fd1a9b1cb7d272ceaa3

• 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. 105-408 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on September 25, 1998.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 25, 1998 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/SRPT/408

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 2500, 105th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/2500

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  fe19f2b022770ad1ee2f42145c500af36597f877bd727fd1a9b1cb7d272ceaa3

  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 S. 2500, last updated September 8, 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.