House bill · 110th Congress · Did not become law
Preserving and Expanding Minority Depository Institutions Act
Sponsor: Rep. Melvin Watt D-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 1, 2007
- Committee actionNov 7, 2007
- Passed HouseDec 5, 2007 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 6, 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. 4043.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4043, Preserving and Expanding Minority Depository Institutions Act” on November 30, 2007. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on November 7, 2007</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 30, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19364
- CBO publication date
- November 30, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4043, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4043
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7108c3c3b69e50eab07cf00efb178592be661c8a59419c08104099a1db73638c
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4043, Preserving and Expanding Minority Depository Institutions Act” on November 30, 2007. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on November 7, 2007”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, November 30, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/19364
- CBO publication date
- November 30, 2007
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4043, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4043
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7108c3c3b69e50eab07cf00efb178592be661c8a59419c08104099a1db73638c
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. 110-465 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on December 4, 2007.Source: Congress.gov, reported December 4, 2007 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/110/HRPT/465
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4043, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/4043
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
7108c3c3b69e50eab07cf00efb178592be661c8a59419c08104099a1db73638c
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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
15 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 14 Democrats
1 of 15 cosponsors (7%) are from the other party.
Joe Baca (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Wm. Clay (D-MO), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Barney Frank (D-MA), Al Green (D-TX), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Gary Miller (R-CA), Gwen Moore (D-WI), David Scott (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 110th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Melvin Watt.
- H.R. 6701 (110th) Civil Rights Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008
- H.R. 6164 (110th) Federal Housing Enterprises Transparency and Accountability Act of 2008
- H.R. 5245 (110th) To suspend temporarily the duty on acid black 107.
- H.R. 5246 (110th) To suspend temporarily the duty on acid black 132.
- H.R. 5247 (110th) To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Acid black 172.
- H.R. 5248 (110th) To suspend temporarily the duty on acid blue 113.
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.