House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to treat certain communities as metropolitan cities for purposes of the community development block grant program.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 14, 2007
- Committee actionMar 29, 2007
- Passed HouseApr 17, 2007 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 18, 2007 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1515.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1515, A bill to amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to treat certain communities as metropolitan cities for purposes of the community development block grant program” on April 12, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 29, 2007</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 12, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18558
- CBO publication date
- April 12, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1515, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/1515
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a14edda9c0692d04a0e180de32eb5eb8a03f89e67e5f321b852463107f3e8358
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1515, A bill to amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to treat certain communities as metropolitan cities for purposes of the community development block grant program” on April 12, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 29, 2007”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 12, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/18558
- CBO publication date
- April 12, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1515, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/1515
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a14edda9c0692d04a0e180de32eb5eb8a03f89e67e5f321b852463107f3e8358
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. 110-86 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on April 16, 2007.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 16, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/86
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1515, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/1515
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a14edda9c0692d04a0e180de32eb5eb8a03f89e67e5f321b852463107f3e8358
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From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1515, 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
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
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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.