House bill · 111th Congress · Did not become law
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to reduce the waiting period for holding special elections to fill vacancies in local offices in the District of Columbia.
Sponsor: Rep. Eleanor Norton D-DCWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 1, 2010
- Committee actionSep 23, 2010
- Passed HouseNov 16, 2010 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 22, 2010 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5702.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5702, A bill to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to reduce the waiting period for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the membership of the Council of the District of Columbia” on September 29, 2010. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 23, 2010</p>”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 29, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21887
- CBO publication date
- September 29, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5702, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/5702
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
2501217780471d59f93b6c45030e0ddc4974527eb3d8f3f068cfa51c116daf98
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5702, A bill to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to reduce the waiting period for holding special elections to fill vacancies in the membership of the Council of the District of Columbia” on September 29, 2010. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 23, 2010”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 29, 2010 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/21887
- CBO publication date
- September 29, 2010
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5702, 111th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/5702
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
2501217780471d59f93b6c45030e0ddc4974527eb3d8f3f068cfa51c116daf98
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. 5702, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 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
No cosponsors.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.