skip to main content
(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

H.R. 6020 (116th): To require an evaluation by the Government Accountability Office of the social, economic, and historic contributions that Minor League Baseball has made to American life and culture.

Call or Write Congress

React to this bill with an emoji

Save your opinion on this bill on a six-point scale from strongly oppose to strongly support

Add Note All Positions »
(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

Sponsor and status

Photo of sponsor Lori Trahan

Lori Trahan

Sponsor. Representative for Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district. Democrat.

Thumbnail of bill text
Read Text »
Last Updated: Mar 11, 2020
Length: 4 pages
Introduced
Feb 28, 2020
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Status
Died in a previous Congress

This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on March 10, 2020 but was never passed by the Senate.

Source
Congress.gov

Position statements

What legislators are saying

“Trahan, McKinley, Rose, Simpson Applaud House Passage of Legislation to Support Minor League Baseball”
    — Rep. Lori Trahan [D-MA3] (Sponsor) on Mar 10, 2020

“House Passes Courtneys, Save Minor League Baseball Task Forces Resolution Supporting Minor League Baseball Teams”
    — Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT2] (Co-sponsor) on Mar 10, 2020

“Griffith Supports Effort to Highlight Importance of Minor League Baseball”
    — Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA9] on Mar 10, 2020

More statements at ProPublica Represent...

What stakeholders are saying

R Street Institute SpendingTracker.org estimates new spending due to H.R. 6020 will be negligible.

History

Feb 28, 2020
 
Introduced

Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber.

Read Text »

Mar 4, 2020
 
Ordered Reported

A committee has voted to issue a report to the full chamber recommending that the bill be considered further. Only about 1 in 4 bills are reported out of committee.

Mar 6, 2020
 
Text Published

Updated bill text was published as of Preprint (Suspension).

Read Updated Text » See Changes »

Mar 10, 2020
 
Passed House (Senate next)

The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next. The vote was by voice vote so no record of individual votes was made.

Read Updated Text » See Changes »

H.R. 6020 (116th) was a bill in the United States Congress.

A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.

Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 6020. This is the one from the 116th Congress.

This bill was introduced in the 116th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2019 to Jan 3, 2021. Legislation not enacted by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.

How to cite this information.

We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work:

“H.R. 6020 — 116th Congress: To require an evaluation by the Government Accountability Office of the social, economic, and historic ...” www.GovTrack.us. 2020. January 19, 2021 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr6020>

Where is this information from?

GovTrack automatically collects legislative information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources. This page is sourced primarily from Congress.gov, the official portal of the United States Congress. Congress.gov is generally updated one day after events occur, and so legislative activity shown here may be one day behind. Data via the congress project.