House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Public Forests Emergency Act of 1999
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 22, 1999
- Committee actionJun 9, 1999
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 31, 2000 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 592.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1524.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1524, Public Forests Emergency Act of 1999” on June 22, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on June 9, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 22, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11623
- CBO publication date
- June 22, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1524, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1524
- 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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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-1021 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on November 1, 2000.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 1, 2000 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/1021
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1524, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1524
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4045f5506f8ba5c6aa3f46f379db06cf8fac86ba3ff288f6be972806769c3912
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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
11 cosponsors — 10 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 11 cosponsors (9%) are from the other party.
Allen Boyd (D-FL), John Doolittle (R-CA), Wally Herger (R-CA), Rick Hill (R-MT), George Nethercutt (R-WA), John Peterson (R-PA), Harold Rogers (R-KY), Robert Schaffer (R-CO), Charles Taylor (R-NC), John Thune (R-SD), Greg Walden (R-OR).
More from the sponsor
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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.