Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 26.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 26, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” on January 10, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As introduced on January 9, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, January 10, 2023 ↗

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  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58896

  CBO publication date

  January 10, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 26, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/26

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  700123c3d6cb3cb7296bd108be59fca264bc284a35e0a354197ffa2bd2687418

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. WAGNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 7, January 9, 2023, Page H108):
  (1) Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, including the power to enforce the prohibition on government action denying equal protection of the laws; and (2) Section 9 of Article I, to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution of the United States, including the power to regulate commerce under Clause 3 of such action.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  372 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 26, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/26

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  700123c3d6cb3cb7296bd108be59fca264bc284a35e0a354197ffa2bd2687418

  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 committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 26, 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.