To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under such Act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such Act.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2886.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2886, A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under such act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such act” on October 13, 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 13, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11902

  CBO publication date

  October 13, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2886, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/2886

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2886, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under such act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such act” on November 24, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on November 19, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 24, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12051

  CBO publication date

  November 24, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2886, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/2886

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b445460aea3805599ef57a570ba976f58ab1ae8f20a404c5ebe5c141d4a95a08

• 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. 106-383 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on October 14, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported October 14, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/383

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2886, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/2886

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  b445460aea3805599ef57a570ba976f58ab1ae8f20a404c5ebe5c141d4a95a08

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