A bill to extend until March 15, 1986, the application of certain tobacco excise taxes, trade adjustment assistance, certain medicare reimbursement provisions, and borrowing authority under the railroad unemployment insurance program, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to extend for a temporary period certain tax provisions of current law which would otherwise expire at the end of 1985.
Public Law 99-201 · H.R. 4006 · 99th Congress · began in the House
Signed by Ronald Reagan (R) on Dec 23, 1985 · Taxation
Sponsor: Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski (D-IL-8)
Cosponsors: None
Passage votes
- HouseUnanimous consent
- SenateVoice vote
Data notes
The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.
Summary
The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.
(House agreed to Senate amendments with amendments)
Amends the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 to extend the increase in the excise tax on cigarettes until March 15, 1986.
Amends the Emergency Extension Act of 1985 to extend the Medicare hospital and physician payment rate provisions under the Social Security Act until March 15, 1986.
Committees
The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.
Data notes
A committee links to its page only where it exists in the current Congress; older and renamed committees are named without a link.
Timeline
From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 15 actions.
- Dec 23, 1985Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 99-201.
- Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
- Dec 20, 1985PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Senate amendments. By Voice Vote.
- Resolving differencesResolving differences · House Concurred, in Senate Amendments , with Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
- Dec 19, 1985Resolving differencesResolving differences · Unanimous Consent Request to Consider Senate Amendments Rejected in House.
- FloorFloor · Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.
- FloorFloor · Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
- FloorFloor · Passed House by Voice Vote.
- FloorFloor · Called up by House by Unanimous Consent.
- CommitteeCommittee · Discharged from House Energy and Commerce Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Discharged from House Ways and Means Committee
- CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Ways and Means Committee
- IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in the House
Data notes
Shows the introduction, each committee and subcommittee step the source dates (referral, hearings, markup, report, discharge), and the floor, conference, presidential and became-law steps. Calendar placements, messages between the chambers, amendments and committee report numbers are not shown for laws before the 108th Congress. Two entries the source lists twice are shown once.
Official record
The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.