House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who retired with over 20 years of service and who have service-connected disabilities to receive compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Bilirakis R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 6, 1999
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 9, 1999 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 303.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 303, A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces...to receive compensation from the Department of Veterans Affair concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either” on November 5, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on January 6, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 5, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11954
- CBO publication date
- November 5, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 303, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/303
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 7, 2024
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of February 7, 2024). Not every bill gets one.
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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
322 cosponsors — 155 Republicans, 166 Democrats, 1 independent
169 of 322 cosponsors (52%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Brian Baird (D-WA), Richard Baker (R-LA), John Baldacci (D-ME), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), James Barcia (D-MI), Bob Barr (R-GA), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Charles Bass (R-NH), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Marion Berry (D-AR), Judy Biggert (R-IL), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), David Bonior (D-MI), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Robert Borski (D-PA) and 292 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.