Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 21.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. WAGNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 1, January 3, 2025, Page H36):
  (1) Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, including the power to enforce the prohibition on government action denying equal protection of the laws; and (2) Section 9 of Article I, to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution of the United States, including the power to regulate commerce under Clause 3 of such action. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 3, 2025 ↗

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  615 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 21, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/21

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 19, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 24, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  67de5caa794bf877321b9dadfe44e30b875dbc39834dcbe967b7a9d112fb9793

  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 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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