House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 28, 2007
- Committee actionJul 16, 2008
- Passed HouseSep 24, 2008 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 2, 2008 — Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1112.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2933.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2933, Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008” on July 22, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 16, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 22, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20073
- CBO publication date
- July 22, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2933, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/2933
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
db9d70272695e041231b6614968e237d300ee66a29482105a36999aa1b93c71f
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2933, Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008” on July 22, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 16, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, July 22, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20073
- CBO publication date
- July 22, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2933, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/2933
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
db9d70272695e041231b6614968e237d300ee66a29482105a36999aa1b93c71f
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. 110-792 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on July 29, 2008.Source: Congress.gov, reported July 29, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/792
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2933, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/2933
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
db9d70272695e041231b6614968e237d300ee66a29482105a36999aa1b93c71f
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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
107 cosponsors — 51 Republicans, 56 Democrats
56 of 107 cosponsors (52%) are from the other party.
Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Michael Arcuri (D-NY), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), John Barrow (D-GA), Marion Berry (D-AR), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Jo Bonner (R-AL), John Boozman (R-AR), Dan Boren (D-OK), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Allen Boyd (D-FL), Corrine Brown (D-FL), Henry Brown (R-SC), Dan Burton (R-IN), G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Ken Calvert (R-CA), John Campbell (R-CA), Christopher Carney (D-PA), John Carter (R-TX), Ben Chandler (D-KY), Howard Coble (R-NC), Tom Cole (R-OK), K. Conaway (R-TX), James Cooper (D-TN), John Culberson (R-TX), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Danny Davis (D-IL) and 77 more.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 6789 (110th) LEAVE Act
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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.