Heartbeat Protection Act of 2019

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 490.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KING of Iowa, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 165, No. 6, January 11, 2019, Page H519):
  Congress has authority to extend protection to unborn children with a detectable heartbeat 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 11, 2019 ↗

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  237 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 490, 116th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/hr/490

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 3, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 20, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  96a17fde7b56167428dccbd4508f9f90848ab5a3c4cea619a0894333fe0d6136

  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 January 3, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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