House bill · 108th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Matching Grant Program for School Security.
Sponsor: Rep. Steven Rothman D-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 9, 2003
- Committee actionSep 24, 2003
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 7, 2003 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 180.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2685.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2685, A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Matching Grant Program for School Security” on September 30, 2003. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 24, 2003</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 30, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14796
- CBO publication date
- September 30, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2685, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2685
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c589ec6b015079a501ea5474ae95b5f96d332859af8561d7d85443ad65c27f33
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2685, A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Matching Grant Program for School Security” on September 30, 2003. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 24, 2003”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 30, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/14796
- CBO publication date
- September 30, 2003
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2685, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2685
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c589ec6b015079a501ea5474ae95b5f96d332859af8561d7d85443ad65c27f33
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.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 108-303 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on October 7, 2003.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 7, 2003 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/303
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2685, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/2685
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
c589ec6b015079a501ea5474ae95b5f96d332859af8561d7d85443ad65c27f33
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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
37 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 29 Democrats
8 of 37 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
Frank Ballance (D-NC), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Ed Case (D-HI), John Conyers (D-MI), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Lane Evans (D-IL), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Martin Frost (D-TX), Gene Green (D-TX), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Henry Hyde (R-IL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), John McHugh (R-NY), Michael McNulty (D-NY), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Solomon Ortiz (D-TX), Major Owens (D-NY), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), C. Ruppersberger (D-MD), F. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and 7 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 3470 (108th) No Safe Haven in Cuba Act
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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.