House bill · 109th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMay 9, 2006
- Committee actionSep 21, 2006
- Passed HouseSep 26, 2006 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 13, 2006 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5313.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5313, A bill to reserve a small percentage of the amounts made available to the Secretary of Agriculture for the farmland protection program to fund challenge grants to encourage the purchase of conservation easements and other interest in” on September 26, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 21, 2006</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18164
- CBO publication date
- September 26, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5313, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/5313
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
dad501efbda7604a70abb6185306d6a0be1023938f979621aaed609c516bc6cc
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5313, A bill to reserve a small percentage of the amounts made available to the Secretary of Agriculture for the farmland protection program to fund challenge grants to encourage the purchase of conservation easements and other interest in” on September 26, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on September 21, 2006”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 26, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18164
- CBO publication date
- September 26, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5313, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/5313
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
dad501efbda7604a70abb6185306d6a0be1023938f979621aaed609c516bc6cc
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 December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5313, last updated December 5, 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
8 cosponsors — 8 Republicans
0 of 8 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Judy Biggert (R-IL), Phil English (R-PA), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Candice Miller (R-MI), David Reichert (R-WA), Patrick Tiberi (R-OH), Curt Weldon (R-PA), Gerald Weller (R-IL).
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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.