A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the State of Arkansas for use as a cemetery.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1537.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1537, An act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the state of Arkansas for use as a cemetery” on July 22, 2004. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 22, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15850

  CBO publication date

  July 22, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1537, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/s/1537

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19ef4eb8f8867fcb3aa6f161763c386a0d0cf1407980dba0fa12e39cdbf184b6

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1537, An act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the state of Arkansas for use as a cemetery” on July 22, 2004. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on July 14, 2004”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 22, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/15850

  CBO publication date

  July 22, 2004

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1537, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/s/1537

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19ef4eb8f8867fcb3aa6f161763c386a0d0cf1407980dba0fa12e39cdbf184b6

• 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. 108-654 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 7, 2004.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 7, 2004 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/654

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 1537, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/s/1537

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  19ef4eb8f8867fcb3aa6f161763c386a0d0cf1407980dba0fa12e39cdbf184b6

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1537, 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.