A bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt old vessels that only operate within inland waterways from the fire-retardant materials requirement if the owners of such vessels make annual structural alterations to at least 10 percent of the areas of the vessels that are not constructed of fire-retardant materials and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 89.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 89, a bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to exempt old vessels that only operate within inland waterways from the fire-retardant materials requirement if the owners of such vessels make annual structural alterations to at least 10 percent...” on February 9, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on January 24, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, February 9, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52414

  CBO publication date

  February 9, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 89, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/89

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 115-5 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on March 21, 2017.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 21, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/115/SRPT/5

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 89, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/89

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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