House bill · 110th Congress · Public Law 110-457
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
Became law on Dec 23, 2008.
Sponsor: Rep. Howard Berman D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedDec 9, 2008
- Committee actionDec 10, 2008
- Passed HouseDec 10, 2008 · without objection
- Passed SenateDec 10, 2008 · by unanimous consent
- To the PresidentDec 12, 2008
- Became lawDec 23, 2008
Latest action: Dec 23, 2008 — Became Public Law No: 110-457.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7311.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7311, William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008” on December 23, 2008. CBO’s description reads “<p>Estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of the bill as cleared by the Congress on December 10, 2008, and signed by the President on December 23, 2008</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 23, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20441
- CBO publication date
- December 23, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7311, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/7311
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
861d93d0dbda10bd48b94ff19c813a621968c035afd47a17a097f2d4fdeee46b
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7311, William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008” on December 23, 2008. CBO’s description reads “Estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of the bill as cleared by the Congress on December 10, 2008, and signed by the President on December 23, 2008”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 23, 2008 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/20441
- CBO publication date
- December 23, 2008
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7311, 110th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/hr/7311
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 27, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
861d93d0dbda10bd48b94ff19c813a621968c035afd47a17a097f2d4fdeee46b
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 April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7311, 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
6 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats
3 of 6 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
John Conyers (D-MI), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Robert Scott (D-VA), Christopher Smith (R-NJ).
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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.