House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law

Coral Reef and Coastal Marine Conservation Act of 2005

H.R. 1996Introduced Apr 28, 2005Policy area: International Affairs

Where it went

IntroducedApr 28, 2005
Committee actionSep 13, 2006
Passed House—
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Sep 13, 2006 — Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, by Unanimous Consent.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1996.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1996, Coral Reef and Coastal Marine Conservation Act of 2005” on September 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as agreed to by the House Committee on International Relations on September 13, 2006</p>”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
Field in the Congress.gov record
cboCostEstimates
CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18138
CBO publication date
September 19, 2006
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 1996, 109th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1996
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 15, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 27, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1996, Coral Reef and Coastal Marine Conservation Act of 2005” on September 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as agreed to by the House Committee on International Relations on September 13, 2006”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
Field in the Congress.gov record
cboCostEstimates
CBO publication
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18138
CBO publication date
September 19, 2006
Congress.gov bill record
H.R. 1996, 109th Congress
Congress.gov API record
https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/1996
Record last updated by Congress.gov
August 15, 2025
PORKER copy retrieved
September 27, 2026
Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
ecdd7b48e4174e84c97aa988521ebdeef108bc4e87e2001ac3c6a2d2bf45edf2
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1996, last updated August 15, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 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

27 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 22 Democrats

22 of 27 cosponsors (81%) are from the other party.

Thomas Allen (D-ME), Howard Berman (D-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Robert Brady (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Ed Case (D-HI), Michael Castle (R-DE), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Sam Farr (D-CA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Steve Israel (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), James Moran (D-VA), Major Owens (D-NY), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), H. Saxton (R-NJ), Pete Stark (D-CA), Gerald Weller (R-IL), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

More from the sponsor

Other 109th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mark Kirk.

Sponsor’s state and district

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