Senate bill · 116th Congress · Did not become law
Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMar 7, 2019
- Committee actionMay 21, 2020
- Passed SenateJun 15, 2020 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 18, 2020 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 712.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 712, Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act” on June 8, 2020. CBO’s description reads “As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on June 3, 2020”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 8, 2020 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56398
- CBO publication date
- June 8, 2020
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 712, 116th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/712
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 10, 2026
- 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 January 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
4 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 3 Democrats
1 of 4 cosponsors (25%) are from the other party.
Christopher Coons (D-DE), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
More from the sponsor
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- S. 1340 (116th) Ebola Eradication Act of 2019
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.