Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8814.

• 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. 168, No. 147, September 13, 2022, Page H7784):
  The Constitutional authority on which this bill is based is Congress's power under the Commerce Clause in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution and under the Constitution's grant of powers to Congress under the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Enforcement Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 13, 2022 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  298 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8814, 117th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/8814

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 6, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 16, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2640b3506e0f8fc46438721120bc66cdf7af5f57b2041009df9fa7d012fd58bb

  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 6, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8814, last updated December 6, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 16, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.