House bill · 115th Congress · Did not become law
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 13, 2017
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseJan 24, 2017 · 238–183
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 30, 2017 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 163, No. 9, January 13, 2017, Page H546):The constutional authority on which this bill is based is Congress's powerunder the Spending Clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2017 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 144 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 7, 115th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/hr/7
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 21, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
101 cosponsors — 98 Republicans, 1 Democrat, 1 independent, 1 other
1 of 101 cosponsors (1%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Justin Amash (L-MI), Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Brian Babin (R-TX), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jim Banks (R-IN), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Diane Black (R-TN), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Bost (R-IL), Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), John Carter (R-TX), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Liz Cheney (R-WY), Chris Collins (R-NY), Doug Collins (R-GA), James Comer (R-KY), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Eric Crawford (R-AR), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), John Duncan (R-TN), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Bill Flores (R-TX) and 71 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 22, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.