Senate bill · 107th Congress · Did not become law
Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention Act of 2002
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 19, 2002
- Committee actionSep 25, 2002
- Passed SenateOct 2, 2002 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 8, 2002 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2980.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2980, Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention Act of 2002” on October 30, 2002. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on October 1, 2002, and passed by the Senate on October 2, 2002</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 30, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14195
- CBO publication date
- October 30, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2980, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/2980
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
71be3735aa3e2c547699523f75081bec77b85db203e1c9401ef528bd21e3abcf
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2980, Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Prevention Act of 2002” on October 30, 2002. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on October 1, 2002, and passed by the Senate on October 2, 2002”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 30, 2002 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14195
- CBO publication date
- October 30, 2002
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2980, 107th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/2980
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
71be3735aa3e2c547699523f75081bec77b85db203e1c9401ef528bd21e3abcf
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 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 2980, last updated April 21, 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.
Christopher Dodd (D-CT), William Frist (R-TN), Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), Edward Kennedy (D-MA).
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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.