Senate bill · 106th Congress · Public Law 106-536
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for certain United States international broadcasting employees.
Became law on Nov 22, 2000.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedOct 25, 2000
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed SenateOct 25, 2000 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseOct 31, 2000 · by voice vote
- To the PresidentNov 14, 2000
- Became lawNov 22, 2000
Latest action: Nov 22, 2000 — Became Public Law No: 106-536.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 3239.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 3239, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for certain United States international broadcasting employees” on November 3, 2000. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on October 31, 2000”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 3, 2000 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12909
- CBO publication date
- November 3, 2000
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 3239, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/3239
- 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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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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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.