To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to prohibit the Council of the District of Columbia from enacting any law to permit euthanasia and assisted suicide in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7196.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BARRETT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 15, January 22, 2026, Page H1351):
  Article 1 Section 8
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 22, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  19 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7196, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7196

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 13, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 13, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  375c2f70f19b92a4b4a40e8c35f050f63fd35303db9c41e0b90285d95d7b3de7

  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 February 13, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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