Child and Animal Abuse Detection and Reporting Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 712.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN DREW, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H389):
  Article 1 Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 712, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/712

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  August 28, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 12, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  509f82aa916d24bcd9dcb33fe65d44db508024e984a5c38f6c45e8887d857b89

  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 August 28, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 712, last updated August 28, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 12, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.