To amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University until December 31, 2009.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4596.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4596, A bill to amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning...land conveyed by the U.S. to Eastern Washington Univ until Dec 31, 2009” on September 22, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on September 15, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16022

  CBO publication date

  September 22, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4596, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2d45745e937769be52da0a91098fd64dc59e6c5d2300ca263ceceef78dbeab80

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4596, A bill to amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning...land conveyed by the U.S. to Eastern Washington Univ until Dec 31, 2009” on September 22, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on September 15, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 22, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16022

  CBO publication date

  September 22, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4596, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/4596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2d45745e937769be52da0a91098fd64dc59e6c5d2300ca263ceceef78dbeab80

• 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 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4596, 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.