Senate bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
A bill to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Jim Inhofe R-OKWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 29, 2019
- Committee actionMay 22, 2019
- Passed SenateMay 11, 2020 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 12, 2020 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 249.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 249, a bill to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes” on June 6, 2019. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 3, 2019”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 6, 2019 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55340
- CBO publication date
- June 6, 2019
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 249, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/249
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 6, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 20, 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 6, 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
23 cosponsors — 16 Republicans, 6 Democrats, 1 independent
7 of 23 cosponsors (30%) are from the other party.
John Boozman (R-AR), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Christopher Coons (D-DE), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), James Lankford (R-OK), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Joseph Manchin (I-WV), Edward Markey (D-MA), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Gary Peters (D-MI), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Patrick Toomey (R-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Todd Young (R-IN).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 20, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.