To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that artificially propagated animals shall be treated the same under that Act as naturally propagated animals, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 181.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McCLINTOCK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H42):
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 The single subject of this legislation is: Endangered Species Act reform.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  105 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 181, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/181

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 17, 2026

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  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dde64ed14a7ce1ed5fa183728ef7c005a7e323b7705a877ee7c5829c5fa89743

  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 September 17, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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