Healthy Moms and Babies Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4605.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. CARTER of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 120, July 13, 2023, Page H3576):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to improve maternal health coverage under Medicaid and CHIP, and for other purposes.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  223 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4605, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4605

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  496b90938cdb5f7bde77018a0c4bdb4bc671e78d03bfd8d5e261b8f1d31e3325

  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.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 4605, last updated December 5, 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.