To amend title 4, United States Code, to add the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to the list of days on which the flag should especially be displayed.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 576.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 576, A bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to add the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday to the list of days on which the flag should especially be displayed” on May 24, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 19, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 24, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11592

  CBO publication date

  May 24, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 576, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cd2f9bd5be86417983fec1105781fed752a2ecfcd544ed4bb0e0de9ecb613d44

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-176 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on June 9, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 9, 1999 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/176

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 576, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cd2f9bd5be86417983fec1105781fed752a2ecfcd544ed4bb0e0de9ecb613d44

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

• Congress.gov noteH.R. 576 was subsequently laid on the table.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  notes

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 576, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/576

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  cd2f9bd5be86417983fec1105781fed752a2ecfcd544ed4bb0e0de9ecb613d44

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