House bill · 109th Congress · Public Law 109-426
To reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children.
Became law on Dec 20, 2006.
Sponsor: Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 18, 2005
- Committee actionJun 8, 2006
- Passed HouseJun 26, 2006 · by voice vote
- Passed SenateDec 7, 2006 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 11, 2006
- Became lawDec 20, 2006
Latest action: Dec 20, 2006 — Became Public Law No: 109-426.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4416.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4416, A bill to reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children” on June 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on June 8, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17865
- CBO publication date
- June 19, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4416, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4416
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7a539a9abb6372b664d7862b70387fc252a45939e4c4b8ccf8ea180ad5c70980
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4416, A bill to reauthorize permanently the use of penalty and franked mail in efforts relating to the location and recovery of missing children” on June 19, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on June 8, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 19, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17865
- CBO publication date
- June 19, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4416, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4416
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7a539a9abb6372b664d7862b70387fc252a45939e4c4b8ccf8ea180ad5c70980
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. 4416, last updated April 7, 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
70 cosponsors — 9 Republicans, 60 Democrats, 1 independent
9 of 70 cosponsors (13%) are from the other party.
Joe Baca (D-CA), Charles Bass (R-NH), Judy Biggert (R-IL), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Dan Burton (R-IN), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Donna Christensen (D-VI), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Danny Davis (D-IL), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lane Evans (D-IL), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Mark Foley (R-FL), Jim Gerlach (R-PA), Charles Gonzalez (D-TX), Bart Gordon (D-TN), Gene Green (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Katherine Harris (R-FL), Melissa Hart (R-PA), Alcee Hastings (D-FL) and 40 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.Res. 247 (109th) Commending the Southern California Association of Governments for Forty Years of Planning and Advocacy in Transportation, Air Quality, and…
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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.