House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit treatment of certain distributions and reimbursements for certain abortions as qualified medical expenses.
Sponsor: Rep. Josh Brecheen R-OKWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 24, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 24, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 720.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BRECHEEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 15, January 24, 2025, Page H395):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 720, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/720
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
10 cosponsors — 10 Republicans
0 of 10 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Harris (R-MD), Mark Harris (R-NC), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Andrew Ogles (R-TN), Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), Daniel Webster (R-FL).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Josh Brecheen.
- H.R. 2819 (119th) DRIVE Act
- H.Res. 59 (119th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the sermon given by the Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde at the National…
- H.R. 719 (119th) No Abortion Coverage for Medicaid Act
- H.R. 7974 (119th) To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure real-time public access to Federal award information.
- H.R. 479 (119th) Healthy SNAP Act of 2025
- H.R. 3330 (119th) Energy Freedom Act
Related bills
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.