Senate bill · 106th Congress · Did not become law
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 16, 1999
- Committee actionApr 27, 1999
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 2, 2000 — Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 109.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 625.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 625, Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999” on May 10, 1999. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on April 27, 1999”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 10, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/11520
- CBO publication date
- May 10, 1999
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 625, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/625
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b29dcaf216c3e48795ae9515fb243b55df4703b3a697a3418140c149a14a311d
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 106-49 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on May 11, 1999.Source: Congress.gov, reported May 11, 1999 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/SRPT/49
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 625, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/625
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b29dcaf216c3e48795ae9515fb243b55df4703b3a697a3418140c149a14a311d
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- Congress.gov noteThe Senate passed H.R. 833 after incorporating S. 625 as an amendment.Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 10, 2026 ↗
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- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 625, 106th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/625
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
b29dcaf216c3e48795ae9515fb243b55df4703b3a697a3418140c149a14a311d
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 625, 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
10 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 6 Democrats
6 of 10 cosponsors (60%) are from the other party.
Joseph Biden (D-DE), John Breaux (D-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jesse Helms (R-NC), Tim Johnson (D-SD), J. Kerrey (D-NE), Charles Robb (D-VA), William Roth (R-DE), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Robert Torricelli (D-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 106th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley.
- S. 2915 (106th) Federal Courts Improvement Act of 2000
- S. 2289 (106th) A bill for the Relief of Jose Guadalupe Tellez Pinales.
- S. 1606 (106th) A bill to extend for 9 additional months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code, is reenacted.
- S. 776 (106th) Loess Hills Preservation Study Act of 1999
- S. 1019 (106th) A bill for the relief of Regine Beatie Edwards.
- S.Con.Res. 112 (106th) A concurrent resolution to make technical corrections in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 434.
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.