Adoption Counts Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6700.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAMBORN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 203, December 11, 2023, Page H6815):
  Article I Section WIII of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: To require the Children's Bureau of Health and Human Services to collect statistics from the court system on the domestic private adoptions within the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 11, 2023 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 6700, 118th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/6700

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 19, 2024

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  September 14, 2026

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  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 19, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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