House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedJan 6, 1999
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseOct 3, 2000 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 4, 2000 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 284.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 284, Honor Guard for Veterans Empowerment Act” on October 5, 2000. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on October 3, 2000”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 5, 2000 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12748
- CBO publication date
- October 5, 2000
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 284, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/284
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 284, 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.
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
107 cosponsors — 44 Republicans, 62 Democrats, 1 independent
64 of 107 cosponsors (60%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Richard Baker (R-LA), John Baldacci (D-ME), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), David Bonior (D-MI), Robert Borski (D-PA), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Gary Condit (D-CA), Philip Crane (R-IL), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Jo Emerson (R-MO), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lane Evans (D-IL), Thomas Ewing (R-IL), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Bob Filner (D-CA), Martin Frost (D-TX), George Gekas (R-PA), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Paul Gillmor (R-OH), Benjamin Gilman (R-NY) and 77 more.
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.