Constitution Index · H.R. 4541 · 2025-07-17
To reauthorize the Young Women’s Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009.
Latest official status (2026-07-27): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Constitutional grade
B
Mostly sound
Voluntary federal health grants supported by Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 with no rights infringement or mandate. Sole concern is centralization: states and local providers could fund and direct this work under the Tenth Amendment, making continued federal direction a minor structural cost.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 Amendment X Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Amendment I Amendment II Amendment IV Amendment V
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Enumerated powers · passes
Congress relies on Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, the power to lay taxes and provide for the general Welfare, as applied through conditional grants to states and support for CDC research and education. The bill does not create a direct federal mandate to individuals or commandeer state legislatures, and does not invoke Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 beyond a supporting role. Scope is spending and reporting, within the spending power.
Bill of Rights · passes
The bill funds voluntary screening, education, and support services. It compels no speech, restricts no religion, press, or assembly under the First Amendment, disarms no person under the Second Amendment, authorizes no search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and imposes no criminal penalty implicating the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendments. Participation is voluntary.
Individual liberty · passes
The bill imposes no mandate to obtain screening, receive treatment, speak, or alter belief. Services are offered to persons with low incomes or lacking coverage, and education campaigns inform rather than coerce. Under the First, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments, personal decisions on body and health remain with the individual.
Decentralization · raises concerns · severity: minor
Cancer screening and health education can be and are provided by private providers, charities, local clinics, and state health departments. A federal grant program with CDC direction consolidates priority-setting in Washington rather than leaving funding choices to states under the Tenth Amendment. Local and state handling is feasible, so the test shows upward consolidation.
Due process and takings · passes
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. No criminal process, civil detention, license loss, or presumption of guilt is created. No property is taken for public use, so no just compensation issue under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause arises. General tax-funded grants are not a taking from a specific owner.
Provenance
- Congress.gov: HR 4541 summary · fetched 2026-10-07 · official page ↗
Version history · never overwritten
| Grade | Graded | Rubric | Source hash | Status |
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| B · #250 | 2026-10-08 | vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0 | 820aa5b568b6 | current |
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Values for America. “Constitutional grade: H.R. 4541, To reauthorize the Young Women’s Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009..” VFA Constitution Index, grade 250 (rubric vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0), graded October 8, 2026. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution-index/grades/250. Accessed 2026-10-19.
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