House bill · 108th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMay 22, 2003
- Committee actionJun 19, 2003
- Passed HouseJul 21, 2003 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 22, 2003 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2249.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2249, Postmasters Equity Act of 2003” on June 26, 2003. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on June 19, 2003</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 26, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14571
- CBO publication date
- June 26, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2249, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4442c7cb3013b5d3b8a99c75df8cd21faa186627627167fa5024f85454a582a1
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2249, Postmasters Equity Act of 2003” on June 26, 2003. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on June 19, 2003”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 26, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14571
- CBO publication date
- June 26, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2249, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4442c7cb3013b5d3b8a99c75df8cd21faa186627627167fa5024f85454a582a1
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 noteFor further action, see S. 678, which became Public Law 108-86 on 9/30/2003.Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2249, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4442c7cb3013b5d3b8a99c75df8cd21faa186627627167fa5024f85454a582a1
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 H.R. 2249, 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
41 cosponsors — 22 Republicans, 19 Democrats
19 of 41 cosponsors (46%) are from the other party.
Thomas Allen (D-ME), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Brad Carson (D-OK), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Danny Davis (D-IL), Lincoln Davis (D-TN), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Phil English (R-PA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Jim Gibbons (R-NV), Mark Green (R-WI), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), William Janklow (R-SD), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Ken Lucas (D-KY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Donald Manzullo (R-IL), Michael Michaud (D-ME), Candice Miller (R-MI), Dennis Moore (D-KS), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Tim Murphy (R-PA), Tom Osborne (R-NE), Major Owens (D-NY), Michael Oxley (R-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX) and 11 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.