House bill · 106th Congress · Public Law 106-4
Nursing Home Resident Protection Amendments of 1999
Became law on Mar 25, 1999.
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Davis D-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 3, 1999
- Committee actionMar 4, 1999
- Passed HouseMar 10, 1999 · 398–12
- Passed SenateMar 15, 1999 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentMar 17, 1999
- Became lawMar 25, 1999
Latest action: Mar 25, 1999 — Became Public Law No: 106-4.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 540.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 540, Nursing Home Resident Protection Amendments of 1999” on March 5, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Commerce on March 4, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 5, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11394
- CBO publication date
- March 5, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 540, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/540
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
78e4bfc98f3ddb764f702fd950c5f35de0d4ec2f61b496b8f3324ec412bcbeb5
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-44 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Energy and Commerce Committee on March 8, 1999.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 8, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/44
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 540, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/540
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 3, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
78e4bfc98f3ddb764f702fd950c5f35de0d4ec2f61b496b8f3324ec412bcbeb5
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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
60 cosponsors — 19 Republicans, 40 Democrats, 1 independent
18 of 60 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Charles Canady (R-FL), Lois Capps (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), John Dingell (D-MI), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Tillie Fowler (R-FL), Porter Goss (R-FL), Gene Green (D-TX), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), John LaFalce (D-NY), Steven LaTourette (R-OH), Tom Lantos (D-CA), Rick Lazio (R-NY), John Lewis (D-GA), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and 30 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jim Davis.
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.