Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 72.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 104, June 14, 2023, Page H2934):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Amends the Constitution to prohibit slavery in the United States by eliminating the Exceptions Clause in the 13th Amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 14, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  199 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.J.Res. 72, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hjres/72

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  3bfaedb99304c47dc05877a139fd3c11dc154a3db35fab2393532e04f01402ac

  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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