To renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in State child welfare programs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1194.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1194, A bill to renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in state child welfare programs” on May 24, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means on March 17, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 24, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41513

  CBO publication date

  May 24, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1194, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1194

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e23045ead3a414b85b1448aad36b358ef5f0c2a31348835c96ac41e12a9d6c09

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McDERMOTT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1987):
  Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that grants Congress the authority, ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated September 8, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  312 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1194, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/1194

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e23045ead3a414b85b1448aad36b358ef5f0c2a31348835c96ac41e12a9d6c09

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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