To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5418.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5418, A bill to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges” on September 20, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 13, 2006</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 20, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18141

  CBO publication date

  September 20, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5418, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/5418

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  46cac36f2187a2d61b423f20555482319482a1d5d34d494cd09bfbe3fee5154f

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5418, A bill to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges” on September 20, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 13, 2006”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 20, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18141

  CBO publication date

  September 20, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5418, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/5418

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  46cac36f2187a2d61b423f20555482319482a1d5d34d494cd09bfbe3fee5154f

• 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. 109-673 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on September 22, 2006.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 22, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/673

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5418, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/5418

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  46cac36f2187a2d61b423f20555482319482a1d5d34d494cd09bfbe3fee5154f

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5418, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 27, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.