Senate bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Adopted Orphans Citizenship Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedAug 4, 1999
- Committee actionOct 21, 1999
- Passed SenateOct 26, 1999 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 29, 1999 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1485.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1485, Adopted Orphans Citizenship Act” on November 4, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the Senate on October 26, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 4, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12012
- CBO publication date
- November 4, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1485, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/1485
- 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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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. 1485, 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
24 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 11 Democrats
11 of 24 cosponsors (46%) are from the other party.
Spencer Abraham (R-MI), John Ashcroft (R-MO), Christopher Bond (R-MO), Sam Brownback (R-KS), John Chafee (R-RI), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Larry Craig (R-ID), Michael DeWine (R-OH), Richard Durbin (D-IL), John Edwards (D-NC), Rod Grams (R-MN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ernest Hollings (D-SC), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Carl Levin (D-MI), Chester Lott (R-MS), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), Gordon Smith (R-OR), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Donald Nickles.
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- S. 1272 (106th) Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999
- S.Con.Res. 111 (106th) A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding ensuring a competitive North American market for softwood lumber.
- S. 924 (106th) Federal Royalty Certainty Act
- S. 1562 (106th) Small Business Franchise Property Recovery Act of 1999
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.