Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Investing in All of America Act of 2025
The bill expands private-capital deployment to targeted small businesses by increasing SBIC leverage exclusions and caps and clarifying rules, but it reduces the ability to count public funds as private capital—weakening public leverage—and limits both the scope and immediacy of benefits for some firms.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for industry and small refineries to introduce and certify more fuel options and restores certain retired RFS credits, trading off increased consumer fuel choices and reduced regulatory friction against greater local air pollution risks, potential cost shifts in the renewable fuels market, and reduced procedural transparency.
Advancing the Mentor-Protégé Program for Small Financial Institutions Act
The bill aims to broaden access to Treasury financial agent roles and improve capacity at small, minority, and rural depositories—potentially improving service and reach for underserved Americans—while creating risks of increased influence by large mentors, added taxpayer costs, and security/oversight vulnerabilities if safeguards are insufficient.
Expanding the Surety Bond Program Act of 2025
The bill expands access to larger surety guarantees for small businesses and adds transparency and spending limits intended to preserve fund resources, but it also introduces rules and funding mechanics that could temporarily reduce guarantee sizes, constrain program operations, or deplete the revolving fund, trading immediate expansion for tighter fiscal controls and oversight.
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
The bill extends fraud enforcement and civil liability windows for COVID-era small-business relief to 10 years—boosting the government’s ability to recover funds and deter fraud while imposing longer legal exposure and higher administrative costs for businesses and agencies.
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and beefs up SBIR/STTR commercialization support, procurement speed, and national‑security vetting—helping many small innovators scale—while increasing program costs, administrative burdens, and risks to competition, transparency, and privacy for some firms and taxpayers.
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill channels federal grants to encourage reshoring and expand manufacturing capacity and training — potentially creating local jobs and skills — but increases federal spending and risks favoring certain firms or producing low-quality jobs if strong conditions are not attached.
Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
The bill increases contracting access and competition by limiting unnecessary degree requirements and requiring documentation, but it creates additional administrative work, transitional uncertainty, and risks to consistent skill assessment and service quality.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI more safely by providing SBA-delivered, regularly updated voluntary guidance and cybersecurity best practices, but it relies on taxpayer-funded implementation and nonbinding recommendations that may leave some firms—especially resource-constrained or specialized ones—without adequate support.
504 Program Risk Oversight Act
The bill increases transparency and targeted risk mitigation for SBA Title V lending—helping policymakers, investors, and vulnerable small businesses—while raising risks of market overreaction, higher administrative costs, and potential reputational or enforcement consequences for lending partners.
AI–WISE Act
The bill offers accessible, technically vetted AI training and localized support to help small businesses adopt AI while avoiding new federal spending—but it leaves funding and accountability unclear and could produce vendor bias or force agencies to shift existing resources away from other priorities.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI by providing SBA guidance and a statutory AI definition while protecting immediate federal budgets, but the prohibition on new funding risks under-resourced implementation, delayed or uneven benefits, and program tradeoffs that could shift costs or reduce services.
Main Street Parity Act
The bill streamlines and clarifies SBA-related regulations for small businesses by narrowing a cross-reference, but that simplification risks removing protections and creating gaps or legal uncertainty for firms and the agency.
Northern Mariana Islands Small Business Access Act
The bill extends SBA microloan eligibility and clarifies statutory language to benefit CNMI small businesses and reduce administrative ambiguity, while creating modest additional program costs and a risk that the clarified wording could be interpreted more narrowly and exclude some applicants.
Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act
The bill lowers costs and increases predictability for importers and retailers—including retroactive refunds—while trading off increased competition for U.S. apparel producers, reduced customs revenue/near-term federal outlays, and added compliance and oversight challenges.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy, oversight, veteran supports, emergency response fixes, and symbolic national heritage while imposing new administrative duties, regulatory and procurement burdens, and additional federal costs that shift trade‑offs between stronger protections/accountability and higher taxpayer and public‑sector implementation burdens.
Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025
This bill aims to ease capital formation and expand modernized access to private markets (including by creating an exam pathway and streamlining filings) while trading off stronger investor protections, transparency, and SEC oversight — shifting more due diligence risk onto investors and advantaging better‑resourced market participants.
DUMP Red Tape Act
The bill creates a centralized, transparent channel for small businesses to report regulatory burdens and produce targeted analyses, but it does not itself change rules and could impose administrative costs and privacy risks.
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Improving Capital Allocation for Newcomers Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier and clearer for smaller funds to raise capital and mandates a transparent SEC study, but it does so by loosening thresholds in ways that reduce investor protections, raise oversight and security concerns, and may create prolonged transitional and regulatory uncertainty.
Made in America Manufacturing Finance Act
The bill directs clearer, larger financial support and potential procurement advantages to domestic small manufacturers (helping expansion and supply chains) while raising taxpayer exposure, creating uneven benefits across small businesses, and adding compliance and legal uncertainty for lenders and borrowers.
Office of Rural Affairs Enhancement Act
The bill improves targeted outreach, transparency, and clarity for rural small-business assistance but creates new reporting/outreach costs, risks diverting SBA resources from direct services, and may exclude businesses outside the statutory rural definition.
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
The bill gives grant recipients clearer, shorter legal exposure windows and reduces potential government costs, but it also narrows prosecutors' and whistleblowers' time to pursue fraud—raising risks of reduced recoveries and weaker deterrence against misuse of relief funds.
Employee Ownership Representation Act of 2025
The bill expands federal support, formal representation, and outreach for employee ownership—potentially boosting worker wealth and preserving small businesses—while adding new federal offices, costs, and risks of politicization and bureaucratic duplication.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. military readiness, domestic industrial capacity, and service member supports through sweeping investments and new authorities—but does so at the cost of substantial new federal spending, added bureaucracy, tighter restrictions on research and rights in some areas, and risks of procurement or operational tradeoffs and local disruptions.
To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
The bill preserves SBIR/STTR awards and commercialization pilots for one more year—supporting small businesses, researchers, and tech transfer in the near term—while adding modest federal cost and leaving longer-term uncertainty without permanent reauthorization.
Recognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as "National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month".
The resolution raises public awareness and encourages coordination to combat counterfeiting—helpful for consumer safety and brand protection—but is non‑binding, may shift costs onto businesses or taxpayers, and could risk diplomatic friction without providing enforcement authority or funding.
Open RAN Outreach Act
The bill helps small and rural providers modernize networks and boosts competition to potentially lower costs for consumers, at the trade-off of introducing potential Open RAN security/interoperability risks and modest additional federal resource costs.
National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act
The bill creates a federal Manufacturing Advisory Council to connect manufacturers, workers, and distressed communities to Commerce with recommendations on workforce, training, and supply‑chain issues, but its advisory, nonbinding, time‑limited structure and lack of dedicated funding mean real benefits depend on voluntary adoption and future funding/reauthorization.
