Senate bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
Encouraging Employee Ownership Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 1, 2017
- Committee actionMar 9, 2017
- Passed SenateSep 11, 2017 · by unanimous consent
- Passed HouseJul 17, 2018 · 406–4
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 18, 2018 — Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 488.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 488, Encouraging Employee Ownership Act” on March 24, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on March 13, 2017”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 24, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52534
- CBO publication date
- March 24, 2017
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 488, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/488
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.