Heartbeat Protection Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 175.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 7, January 9, 2023, Page H112):
  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 9, 2023 ↗

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  237 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 175, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/175

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 31, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  53a78c17ea97c28aa93b37d90772761af2b1e6c5d27ceb8ef2504d2b1c89067e

  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 31, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 175, last updated December 31, 2024. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.