Teleabortion Prevention Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 421.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GOOD of Virginia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 13, January 20, 2023, Page H251):
  Congress has the authority to extend protection to unborn children and their mothers under the Commerce Clause of Section 8 or Article 1. This authority also comes from the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of Section 1 and the Enforcement Clause of Section 5, of the 14th Amendment.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 20, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  290 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 421, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/421

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 24, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  4bd08d9b456d29a753fb024b1a7d0813bf0b034606d2a4ecad47d199c69bb8fc

  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 July 24, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 421, last updated July 24, 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.