Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3504.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 132, September 15, 2015, Page H5980):
  Congress has authority to extend protection to born-alive abortion survivors under the Supreme Court's Commerce Clause precedents and under the Constitution's grants of powers to Congress under the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Enforcement Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 15, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  281 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3504, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3504

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  69c8fa6e372dadef84c6713c6fbdc98fb27c2fb4c7919096407098d2661e5be2

  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 CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3504, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.