Senate bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedApr 22, 1997
- Committee actionOct 7, 1997
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 7, 1997 — Committee on Veterans Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 623.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 623, Filipino Veterans Burial Benefits Act of 1997” on October 24, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on October 7, 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/10493
- CBO publication date
- October 24, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 623, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/s/623
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 623, last updated August 21, 2025. 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
14 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 12 Democrats
2 of 14 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dale Bumpers (D-AR), Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Thomas Gorton (R-WA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Daniel Moynihan (D-NY), Patty Murray (D-WA), Harry Reid (D-NV), Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), Paul Wellstone (D-MN).
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.