Senate bill · 109th Congress · Public Law 109-287
Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act
Became law on Sep 27, 2006.
Sponsor: Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 11, 2006
- Committee actionMay 18, 2006
- Passed SenateMay 25, 2006 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseSep 13, 2006 · by voice vote
- To the PresidentSep 18, 2006
- Became lawSep 27, 2006
Latest action: Sep 27, 2006 — Became Public Law No: 109-287.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 2784.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2784, Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act” on May 22, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urgan Affairs on May 18, 2006</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 22, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17793
- CBO publication date
- May 22, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2784, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/2784
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f31c9de2d2e7a287e87d022d9b75e262ada5d9255f1246347c1015f60b0947fe
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 2784, Fourteenth Dalai Lama Congressional Gold Medal Act” on May 22, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urgan Affairs on May 18, 2006”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 22, 2006 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17793
- CBO publication date
- May 22, 2006
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 2784, 109th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/s/2784
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
f31c9de2d2e7a287e87d022d9b75e262ada5d9255f1246347c1015f60b0947fe
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 S. 2784, 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
75 cosponsors — 32 Republicans, 41 Democrats, 2 independents
34 of 75 cosponsors (45%) are from the other party.
Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), George Allen (R-VA), Max Baucus (D-MT), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Jesse Bingaman (D-NM), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Robert Byrd (D-WV), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Thomas Carper (D-DE), Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Norm Coleman (R-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Larry Craig (R-ID), Mark Dayton (D-MN), Michael DeWine (R-OH), Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Richard Durbin (D-IL), John Ensign (R-NV), Russell Feingold (D-WI), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and 45 more.
More from the sponsor
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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.