Expanded Genetic Screening Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5864.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. FITZPATRICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 161, October 2, 2023, Page H4951):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: This bill requires state Medicaid programs to cover noninvasive prenatal genetic screening for pregnant women. (Noninvasive prenatal genetic screening uses naturally occurring fetal DNA from the mother's blood to screen for genetic abnormalities.)
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 2, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

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  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

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  322 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5864, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/5864

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  November 18, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  a7b9dc10bca91b4654b77ae3230eab9cf2a95da9649bcb73ab90e20a68be5b64

  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 November 18, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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