House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 10, 1999
- Committee actionMar 17, 1999
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 26, 1999 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 57.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 683.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 683, Decennial Census Improvement Act of 1999” on April 21, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on March 17, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 21, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11491
- CBO publication date
- April 21, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 683, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/683
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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. 106-104 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on April 26, 1999.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 26, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/104
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 683, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/683
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
03b8220a24fa7994c6ce746e218e65387e1776f9f1b415123d9c74aa4aefd6a6
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 683, last updated April 7, 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.
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
22 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 19 Democrats
3 of 22 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Eva Clayton (D-NC), James Clyburn (D-SC), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Julian Dixon (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Harold Ford (D-TN), Porter Goss (R-FL), Gene Green (D-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Stephanie Jones (D-OH), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA), Dan Miller (R-FL), Constance Morella (R-MD), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Ronnie Shows (D-MS), Karen Thurman (D-FL).
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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.