Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 36.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 36, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” on January 20, 2015. CBO’s description reads “As introduced in the House of Representatives on January 6, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 20, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/49897

  CBO publication date

  January 20, 2015

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 36, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/36

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c31e224939abff7d47c29d5ff83e221cc86a3a18f34966afb3a8507606e1918e

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• 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. 1, January 6, 2015, Page H44):
  Congress has authority to extend protection to pain-capable unborn children 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 January 6, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  280 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 36, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/36

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 4, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c31e224939abff7d47c29d5ff83e221cc86a3a18f34966afb3a8507606e1918e

  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 March 4, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 36, last updated March 4, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.