Senate bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2002
- Committee actionJun 13, 2002
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 13, 2002 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 416.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1956.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1956, Safe Explosives Act” on August 23, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 13, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 23, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13957
- CBO publication date
- August 23, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1956, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/1956
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c34c42bf8d459554754f61aeba1172cb191903342d51d2fef8e1e0d9ad0228a8
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1956, Safe Explosives Act” on August 23, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 13, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 23, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/13957
- CBO publication date
- August 23, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1956, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/1956
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c34c42bf8d459554754f61aeba1172cb191903342d51d2fef8e1e0d9ad0228a8
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 August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1956, 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
4 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 3 Democrats
1 of 4 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Charles Schumer (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 107th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Herbert Kohl.
- S. 1233 (107th) Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002
- S. 2549 (107th) A bill to ensure that child employees of traveling sales crews are protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
- S. 1191 (107th) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- S. 2801 (107th) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003
- S. 1054 (107th) Patient Abuse Prevention Act
- S. 3091 (107th) Patient Abuse Prevention Act
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.