House bill · 108th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to ensure that the dependents of employees of the Forest Service stationed in Puerto Rico receive a high-quality elementary and secondary education.
Sponsor: Rep. Anibal Acevedo-Vila D-PRWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 9, 2004
- Committee actionSep 23, 2004
- Passed HouseOct 5, 2004 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 6, 2004 — Received in the Senate.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5042.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5042, A bill to amend the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to ensure that the dependents of employees of the Forest Service stationed in Puerto Rico receive a high-quality” on September 28, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 23, 2004</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2004 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16038
- CBO publication date
- September 28, 2004
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5042, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/5042
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3edfb45351791045f9fa64f39ab2b08d3e642bbd737f09d2e3278a74ddad9569
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5042, A bill to amend the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to ensure that the dependents of employees of the Forest Service stationed in Puerto Rico receive a high-quality” on September 28, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 23, 2004”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 28, 2004 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16038
- CBO publication date
- September 28, 2004
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5042, 108th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hr/5042
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
3edfb45351791045f9fa64f39ab2b08d3e642bbd737f09d2e3278a74ddad9569
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. 5042, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 108th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Anibal Acevedo-Vila.
- H.R. 2826 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1000 Avenida Sanchez Osorio in Carolina, Puerto Rico, as the…
- H.R. 3742 (108th) To designate the United States courthouse and post office building located at 93 Atocha Street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as the "Luis A.…
- H.R. 1723 (108th) Caribbean National Forest Act of 2003
- H.R. 1263 (108th) Code Adam Act
- H.R. 1351 (108th) Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Fairness Act of 2003
- H.R. 535 (108th) To provide access to welfare tools to help Americans get back to work.
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.