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 October 3, 2017. CBO’s description reads “As introduced in the Committee on the Judiciary on January 3, 2017”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 3, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53175

  CBO publication date

  October 3, 2017

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 36, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/36

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e323bd282db15f1566c2f6f0181fc2b6836ef7a79f019a4b746dc30997e7dd48

• 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. 163, No. 1, January 3, 2017, Page H47):
  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 3, 2017 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  280 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 36, 115th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/36

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 10, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  e323bd282db15f1566c2f6f0181fc2b6836ef7a79f019a4b746dc30997e7dd48

  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 August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 36, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 21, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.