House bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
2000 Census Language Barrier Removal Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 2, 1999
- Committee actionMar 17, 1999
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 19, 1999 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 53.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 929.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 929, 2000 Census Language Barrier Removal Act” on April 7, 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 7, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11472
- CBO publication date
- April 7, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 929, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/929
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 106-96 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on April 19, 1999.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 19, 1999 ↗
Evidence
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- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/HRPT/96
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 929, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/hr/929
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 20, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
3 cosponsors — 3 Republicans
0 of 3 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Dan Miller.
- H.R. 472 (106th) Local Census Quality Check Act
- H.Con.Res. 193 (106th) Expressing the support of Congress for activities to increase public participation in the decennial census.
- H.Con.Res. 121 (106th) Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the victory of the United States in the cold war and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- H.R. 1009 (106th) 2000 Census Community Participation Enhancement Act
- H.R. 1010 (106th) To improve participation in the 2000 decennial census by increasing the amounts available to the Bureau of the Census for marketing…
- H.R. 1058 (106th) Census in the Schools Promotion Act
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.