Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 33.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.J. Res. 33, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecreation of the flag of the United States” on May 27, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 26, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 27, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11564

  CBO publication date

  May 27, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 33, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hjres/33

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43cd9764f808770ea1090c01106297c8561d33003f7c6efa067f1e3ec87bc510

• 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: H. Rept. 106-191 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on June 18, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 18, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/191

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 33, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hjres/33

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  43cd9764f808770ea1090c01106297c8561d33003f7c6efa067f1e3ec87bc510

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 33, last updated April 7, 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.