Senate bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
CREATES Act of 2018
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedApr 27, 2017
- Committee actionJun 14, 2018
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 21, 2018 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 482.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 974.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 974, Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2018” on September 19, 2018. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 21, 2018”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 19, 2018 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54479
- CBO publication date
- September 19, 2018
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 974, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/974
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- 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 August 10, 2026). 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
30 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 14 Democrats, 1 independent
15 of 30 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Richard Durbin (D-IL), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), John Kennedy (R-LA), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mike Lee (R-UT), John McCain (R-AZ), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Tina Smith (D-MN), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Jon Tester (D-MT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Todd Young (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
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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.