Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4712.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BLACKBURN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 209, December 21, 2017, Page H10420):
  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 December 21, 2017 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4712, 115th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/4712

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 21, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d2bc32fefc74a6b20ed1c848de74e4fb534d6e103ffb9286be5bc475ae3f6d36

  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.

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