House bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2001
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Scarborough R-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 8, 2001
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 1, 2001 — Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 548.
- Congress.gov noteOn January 23, 2002, Mr. Jeff Miller of Florida requested and was granted approval to hereafter be considered as first sponsor of H.R. 548 for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprints.Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 548, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/hr/548
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 19, 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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 19, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 548, last updated August 19, 2025. 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
194 cosponsors — 97 Republicans, 96 Democrats, 1 independent
99 of 194 cosponsors (51%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), W. Akin (R-MO), Thomas Allen (D-ME), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Joe Baca (D-CA), Brian Baird (D-WA), Richard Baker (R-LA), John Baldacci (D-ME), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), James Barcia (D-MI), Bob Barr (R-GA), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Marion Berry (D-AR), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rod Blagojevich (D-IL), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boehner (R-OH), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), David Bonior (D-MI), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Henry Brown (R-SC), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ed Bryant (R-TN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Chris Cannon (R-UT) and 164 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Scarborough.
- H.R. 2559 (107th) To amend chapter 90 of title 5, United States Code, relating to Federal long-term care insurance.
- H.R. 2815 (107th) To designate the Federal building located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, as the "Robert F. Kennedy…
- H.R. 549 (107th) Collegiate Learning and Student Savings Act
- H.Res. 75 (107th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should recognize board certifications from the…
- H.R. 2240 (107th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3719 Highway 4 in Jay, Florida, as the "Joseph W. Westmoreland…
- H.R. 1631 (107th) To permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf off the State of Florida, and for other purposes.
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.