House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002
Sponsor: Rep. Bob Etheridge D-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 5, 2002
- Committee actionOct 9, 2002
- Passed HouseNov 15, 2002 · without objection
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 15, 2002 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5334.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5334, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002” on November 1, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 1, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14198
- CBO publication date
- November 1, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5334, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/5334
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 19, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
61e373d8af01135b252750e03a6cc2dc53f1325e489f6d7aa8999f20cfb9df00
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5334, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2002” on November 1, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on October 9, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 1, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14198
- CBO publication date
- November 1, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5334, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/5334
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 19, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
61e373d8af01135b252750e03a6cc2dc53f1325e489f6d7aa8999f20cfb9df00
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. 107-786 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on November 14, 2002.Source: Congress.gov, reported November 14, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/107/HRPT/786
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5334, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/5334
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 19, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
61e373d8af01135b252750e03a6cc2dc53f1325e489f6d7aa8999f20cfb9df00
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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
113 cosponsors — 27 Republicans, 86 Democrats
27 of 113 cosponsors (24%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Anibal Acevedo-Vila (D-PR), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Lois Capps (D-CA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Julia Carson (D-IN), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Eva Clayton (D-NC), John Conyers (D-MI), Jerry Costello (D-IL), William Coyne (D-PA), Danny Davis (D-IL), Jo Ann Davis (R-VA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Harold Ford (D-TN), Vito Fossella (R-NY), Barney Frank (D-MA), Martin Frost (D-TX), George Gekas (R-PA) and 83 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 2751 (107th) General Shelton Congressional Gold Medal Act
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- H.R. 1610 (107th) To amend the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 to make leaf tobacco an eligible commodity for the Market Access Program.
- H.Con.Res. 34 (107th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued in honor of Ava Gardner.
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.