House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Desalination Water Supply Shortage Prevention Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Davis D-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 3, 2005
- Committee actionNov 16, 2005
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 26, 2006 — Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1071.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1071, Desalination Water Supply Shortage Prevention Act” on November 29, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on November 16, 2005</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 29, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17510
- CBO publication date
- November 29, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1071, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1071
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1ec1a0b1ad6ffcf24ab071839f31698c60a81a31d5934b800ab36080b359c91c
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1071, Desalination Water Supply Shortage Prevention Act” on November 29, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on November 16, 2005”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 29, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17510
- CBO publication date
- November 29, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1071, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1071
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1ec1a0b1ad6ffcf24ab071839f31698c60a81a31d5934b800ab36080b359c91c
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. 109-380 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on March 1, 2006.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 1, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/380
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1071, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1071
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
1ec1a0b1ad6ffcf24ab071839f31698c60a81a31d5934b800ab36080b359c91c
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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
28 cosponsors — 16 Republicans, 12 Democrats
16 of 28 cosponsors (57%) are from the other party.
Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Henry Brown (R-SC), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Jim Costa (D-CA), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), John Doolittle (R-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Jim Gibbons (R-NV), Charles Gonzalez (D-TX), Jane Harman (D-CA), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), J. Hayworth (R-AZ), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Jay Inslee (D-WA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), James McGovern (D-MA), Gary Miller (R-CA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), E. Shaw (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jim Davis.
- H.R. 5104 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1750 16th Street South in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the "Morris…
- H.Con.Res. 275 (109th) Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the education curriculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- H.R. 1359 (109th) To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the pilot program for alternative water source projects.
- H.R. 2617 (109th) To bar certain additional restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba.
- H.R. 2801 (109th) Up-Skilling Tax Credit Act of 2005
- H.R. 4783 (109th) Permanent Protection for Florida Act of 2006
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 27, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.