House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedApr 22, 1999
- Committee actionOct 5, 1999
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 5, 1999 — Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1520.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1520, Child Status Protection Act of 1999” on October 14, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 5, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 14, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11916
- CBO publication date
- October 14, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1520, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1520
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 20, 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 20, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1520, last updated August 20, 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
11 cosponsors — 9 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 11 cosponsors (18%) are from the other party.
Dick Armey (R-TX), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Martin Frost (D-TX), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), William Jefferson (D-LA), Frank Lucas (R-OK), David McIntosh (R-IN), Gary Miller (R-CA), Constance Morella (R-MD), James Rogan (R-CA), Mark Souder (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith.
- H.R. 2883 (106th) Child Citizenship Act of 2000
- H.R. 3767 (106th) Visa Waiver Permanent Program Act
- H.R. 4489 (106th) Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000
- H.R. 3061 (106th) To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for an additional 2 years the period for admission of an alien as a nonimmigrant…
- H.R. 4227 (106th) Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act
- H.R. 490 (106th) To require the Secretary of Energy to purchase additional petroleum products for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 28, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.