Senate bill · 107th Congress · Public Law 107-45
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent authority for the admission of "S" visa non-immigrants.
Became law on Oct 1, 2001.
Sponsor: Sen. Edward Kennedy D-MAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 13, 2001
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed SenateSep 13, 2001 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseSep 15, 2001 · without objection
- To the PresidentSep 20, 2001
- Became lawOct 1, 2001
Latest action: Oct 1, 2001 — Became Public Law No: 107-45.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1424.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1424, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent authority for the admission of "S" visa nonimmigrants” on September 18, 2001. CBO’s description reads “<p>Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on September 14, 2001</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 18, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13275
- CBO publication date
- September 18, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1424, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/1424
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a92f811b04d68d46cde53ba9aba84e37b1ed1b7da18a13ffdf1982c36b89c202
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1424, An act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent authority for the admission of "S" visa nonimmigrants” on September 18, 2001. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on September 14, 2001”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 18, 2001 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13275
- CBO publication date
- September 18, 2001
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1424, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/1424
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a92f811b04d68d46cde53ba9aba84e37b1ed1b7da18a13ffdf1982c36b89c202
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.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1424, last updated April 7, 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
4 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 4 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Sam Brownback (R-KS), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
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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.