Export Apple Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 609.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 609, A bill to amend the Export Apple and Pear Act to limit the applicability of the act to apples” on February 19, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on February 10, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 19, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11370

  CBO publication date

  February 19, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 609, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c03627d8301ee4afd61fad0587218f75124edfa61b6214e5a44954c37487c70b

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 609, An act to amend the Export Apple and Pear Act to limit the applicability of the act to apples” on November 17, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on November 3, 1999”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 17, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12025

  CBO publication date

  November 17, 1999

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 609, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c03627d8301ee4afd61fad0587218f75124edfa61b6214e5a44954c37487c70b

• 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. 106-36 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Agriculture Committee on March 2, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 2, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/36

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 609, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/609

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 20, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c03627d8301ee4afd61fad0587218f75124edfa61b6214e5a44954c37487c70b

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 609, last updated August 20, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.