House bill · 108th Congress · Did not become law
To designate the United States courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse".
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 19, 2003
- Committee actionFeb 25, 2004
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 25, 2004 — Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 159.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2538.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 108-448 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 25, 2004.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 25, 2004 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/448
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2538, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2538
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5b18a33a7930c7e75c32102cb02466b835db705dbdfb0dc1b41a40335ed6c3ee
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- Congress.gov noteFor further action, see S. 1904, which became Public Law 108-225 on 5/7/2004.Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2538, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2538
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
5b18a33a7930c7e75c32102cb02466b835db705dbdfb0dc1b41a40335ed6c3ee
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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
19 cosponsors — 13 Republicans, 6 Democrats
13 of 19 cosponsors (68%) are from the other party.
Allen Boyd (D-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), Jim Davis (D-FL), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Tom Feeney (R-FL), Mark Foley (R-FL), Porter Goss (R-FL), Katherine Harris (R-FL), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Ric Keller (R-FL), Jeff Miller (R-FL), Adam Putnam (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Robert Wexler (D-FL), C. W. Young (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 108th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Kendrick Meek.
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- H.R. 2137 (108th) Immigrant Children Protection Act of 2003
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- H.R. 1361 (108th) To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the national significance of the Miami Circle…
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.