To designate a United States courthouse in Brownsville, Texas, as the "Garza-Vela United States Courthouse".

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 686.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-109 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 27, 1999.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 27, 1999 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/109

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 686, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/686

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0117332a54fd1083e6a271eccfe7577b0c7633ec68d94726c89aae8e35401a38

  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’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 686, last updated September 8, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.