Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Korean American Divided Families National Registry Act
Official title: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a national registry of Korean American divided families, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Timothy Kaine D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2025
- Committee actionMar 27, 2025
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 28, 2025 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 51.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 555.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 555, Korean American Divided Families National Registry Act” on April 9, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on March 27, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61323
- CBO publication date
- April 9, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 555, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/555
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 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 September 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
5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats
2 of 5 cosponsors (40%) are from the other party.
Christopher Coons (D-DE), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Pete Ricketts (R-NE).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.