Senate bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 22, 1999
- Committee actionJul 1, 1999
- Passed SenateJul 1, 1999 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseAug 2, 1999 · without objection
- Resolving differencesNov 19, 1999
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 22, 1999 — Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1257.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1257, Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999” on July 7, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on July 1, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 7, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11663
- CBO publication date
- July 7, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1257, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/1257
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- 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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1257, last updated August 10, 2026. 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
3 cosponsors — 3 Democrats
3 of 3 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
Herbert Kohl (D-WI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Charles Schumer (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
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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.