House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMay 24, 1999
- Committee actionMay 26, 1999
- Passed HouseAug 4, 1999 · 376–43
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 5, 1999 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 400.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1907.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1907, American Inventors Protection Act of 1999” on July 21, 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, July 21, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11720
- CBO publication date
- July 21, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1907, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1907
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
bceef65bd7957be3110db1fa4bde21d32ca1271d3e441fe934cbe1d93f748e4a
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1907, American Inventors Protection Act of 1999” on November 23, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on November 5, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 23, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12028
- CBO publication date
- November 23, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1907, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1907
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
bceef65bd7957be3110db1fa4bde21d32ca1271d3e441fe934cbe1d93f748e4a
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. 106-287 ↗.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 5, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/287
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1907, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/1907
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
bceef65bd7957be3110db1fa4bde21d32ca1271d3e441fe934cbe1d93f748e4a
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 H.R. 1907, last updated August 10, 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.
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
59 cosponsors — 28 Republicans, 31 Democrats
31 of 59 cosponsors (53%) are from the other party.
Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Howard Berman (D-CA), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Ed Bryant (R-TN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Tom Campbell (R-CA), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Michael Castle (R-DE), Bob Clement (D-TN), John Conyers (D-MI), Jim Davis (D-FL), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Norman Dicks (D-WA), Cal Dooley (D-CA), David Dreier (R-CA), Robert Ehrlich (R-MD), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Harold Ford (D-TN), Barney Frank (D-MA), Bob Franks (R-NJ), Martin Frost (D-TX), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Robert Goodlatte (R-VA), Rick Hill (R-MT), Henry Hyde (R-IL), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Sue Kelly (R-NY) and 29 more.
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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.