Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2017

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 147.

• 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. 163, No. 1, January 3, 2017, Page H50):
  (1) the Commerce Clause; (2) section 2 of the 13th amendment; (3) section 5 of the 14th amendment, including the power to enforce the prohibition on government action denying equal protection of the laws; and (4) section 8 of article I, to make all laws necessary and proper for the carrying into execution of powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  383 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 147, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/147

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 11, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2557064618157f8b30ab99d6f53d4240f79d7f72bed27f1d934cef754f229fc5

  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 August 11, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 147, last updated August 11, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.