House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Small Business Advocacy Improvement Act of 2002
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 16, 2002
- Committee actionApr 17, 2002
- Passed HouseMay 21, 2002 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 8, 2002 — Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 485.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4231.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4231, Small Business Advocacy Improvement Act of 2002” on April 29, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on April 17, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 29, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13632
- CBO publication date
- April 29, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4231, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4231
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
8a7d3c1e84474648a836475d0badaad010a0b372bee0b7674b1d0d3d6304b408
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4231, Small Business Advocacy Improvement Act of 2002” on April 29, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on April 17, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 29, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13632
- CBO publication date
- April 29, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4231, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4231
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
8a7d3c1e84474648a836475d0badaad010a0b372bee0b7674b1d0d3d6304b408
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.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 107-433 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Small Business Committee on May 2, 2002.Source: Congress.gov, reported May 2, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/433
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4231, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/4231
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
8a7d3c1e84474648a836475d0badaad010a0b372bee0b7674b1d0d3d6304b408
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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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donald Manzullo.
- H.R. 3346 (107th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify the reporting requirements relating to higher education tuition and related expenses.
- H.R. 3297 (107th) Mychal Judge Police and Fire Chaplains Public Safety Officers' Benefit Act of 2002
- H.R. 3230 (107th) American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act of 2001
- H.R. 612 (107th) Persian Gulf War Illness Compensation Act of 2001
- H.R. 978 (107th) Small Business Pollution Prevention Opportunity Act of 2001
- H.Con.Res. 46 (107th) Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding chiropractic health care benefits.
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.