House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Fathers Count Act of 1999
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 14, 1999
- Committee actionOct 21, 1999
- Passed HouseNov 10, 1999 · 328–93
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 19, 1999 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3073.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3073, Fathers Count Act of 1999” on October 27, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on October 21, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 27, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11933
- CBO publication date
- October 27, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3073, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/3073
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 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. 106-424 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Ways and Means Committee on October 28, 1999.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 28, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/424
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3073, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/3073
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
14 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 14 cosponsors (43%) are from the other party.
Dave Camp (R-MI), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Julia Carson (D-IN), William Coyne (D-PA), Phil English (R-PA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Paul Gillmor (R-OH), William Jefferson (D-LA), Ron Lewis (R-KY), Robert Matsui (D-CA), Jim McCrery (R-LA), E. Shaw (R-FL), Pete Stark (D-CA), William Thomas (R-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Nancy Johnson.
- H.R. 3443 (106th) Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
- H.R. 4312 (106th) Upper Housatonic National Heritage Area Study Act of 2000
- H.R. 3313 (106th) Long Island Sound Restoration Act
- H.R. 4678 (106th) Child Support Distribution Act of 2000
- H.R. 1802 (106th) Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
- H.Res. 465 (106th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that local, State, and Federal governments should collect and disseminate statistics…
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.