Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 12.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CHU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 58, March 30, 2023, Page H1693):
  Clause 1 of Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To protect a person's ability to determine whether to continue to or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider's ability to provide abortion services.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 30, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  273 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 12, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/12

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  82f9060819837acb74d97103a0055cf9de89b343faaac90682144cece493ef71

  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 May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 12, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.