House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Cox R-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 12, 2005
- Committee actionApr 21, 2005
- Passed HouseMay 12, 2005 · 409–10
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 12, 2005 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1544.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1544, Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005” on April 28, 2005. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on April 21, 2005</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 28, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16474
- CBO publication date
- April 28, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1544, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1544
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
aa2fb4d38e3f582d18da82bc8e8d1feba8a7847d306a295da328b183e89660c3
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1544, Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act of 2005” on April 28, 2005. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on April 21, 2005”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 28, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/16474
- CBO publication date
- April 28, 2005
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1544, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1544
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
aa2fb4d38e3f582d18da82bc8e8d1feba8a7847d306a295da328b183e89660c3
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. 109-65 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Homeland Security Committee on April 29, 2005.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 29, 2005 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/65
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1544, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1544
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
aa2fb4d38e3f582d18da82bc8e8d1feba8a7847d306a295da328b183e89660c3
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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
40 cosponsors — 20 Republicans, 20 Democrats
20 of 40 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Howard Berman (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Charles Dent (R-PA), Norman Dicks (D-WA), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Jim Gibbons (R-NV), Jane Harman (D-CA), Katherine Harris (R-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Peter King (R-NY), James Langevin (D-RI), John Linder (R-GA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Daniel Lungren (R-CA), Edward Markey (D-MA), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Major Owens (D-NY), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Stevan Pearce (R-NM), Tom Price (R-GA), David Reichert (R-WA) and 10 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Christopher Cox.
- H.R. 1817 (109th) Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006
- H.Res. 398 (109th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the employees of the Department of Homeland Security, their partners at all…
- H.R. 64 (109th) Family Heritage Preservation Act
- H.R. 534 (109th) Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2005
- H.R. 66 (109th) Health Care Freedom of Choice Act
- H.R. 1684 (109th) Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act of 2005
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.