Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and streamlines SBIR/STTR programs and strengthens commercialization and security safeguards—helping many small firms scale and get to market faster—while increasing federal spending, concentrating benefits among established participants, adding compliance burdens, and delaying some
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill enables federal support to attract relocated firms and bolster U.S. manufacturing—potentially creating jobs and planning capacity—while raising the risk of higher public spending, uneven geographic benefits, and incentives that produce temporary rather than lasting gains.
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill seeks to attract and channel 'trusted' foreign investment and tighten screening to protect technology and supply chains, but does so by expanding Commerce's authority in ways that could limit investment from some countries, raise costs, and create regulatory uncertainty for firms.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill offers practical, standards‑based AI guidance that could help many small businesses improve adoption and security, but its impact is limited by uncertain funding, voluntary uptake, and the risk of uneven distribution to underserved areas.
504 Program Risk Oversight Act
The bill increases public transparency and risk oversight of the SBA 504 program—helping accountability and potentially stabilizing lending—while raising privacy/reputational risks for some firms, adding administrative costs, and possibly prompting tighter credit for certain small businesses.
AI–WISE Act
The bill provides free, standardized AI training and privacy guidance to help small businesses adopt AI responsibly while avoiding new federal spending, but that budget constraint risks underfunding implementation, shifting agency resources, leaving digitally underserved businesses behind, and reducing advisory transparency.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill promotes AI adoption by small businesses with training and clearer definitions while preventing new federal spending — but its prohibition on additional appropriations risks undercutting implementation, shifting costs onto taxpayers or other programs, and leaving rural or vulnerable firms without adequate support or safeguards.
Main Street Parity Act
The bill makes it easier for small manufacturers to obtain SBA-backed plant loans, increasing access to capital, but it raises taxpayer exposure to loan losses and may distort competition among small firms.
Northern Mariana Islands Small Business Access Act
The bill extends and clarifies SBA microloan access for small businesses in the Northern Mariana Islands, benefiting territory entrepreneurs while imposing modest additional administrative costs and potential resource shifts within the SBA.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy protections, oversight, and targeted supports (notably for veterans and local fire response) and strengthens some procurement and foreign‑policy efforts, but does so while adding new reporting and administrative requirements and exposing taxpayers to increased, often open‑ended federal spending and compliance costs.
Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025
The bill lowers barriers and recurring frictions to capital formation and investment access for issuers and some investors, but it does so by loosening disclosure, oversight, and investor‑protection guardrails—shifting greater risk onto retail investors and potentially increasing systemic exposure.
DUMP Red Tape Act
The bill creates an accessible, transparent mechanism to surface and document regulatory burdens on small businesses and push for fixes, but depends on nonbinding recommendations, may expose identifying business information, and incurs taxpayer-funded administrative costs.
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Improving Capital Allocation for Newcomers Act of 2025
The bill expands and clarifies private‑fund exemptions to increase capital access and regulatory certainty for funds and startups, but it does so while reducing oversight and transparency for some investors, delaying evidence-based reforms, and creating privacy and future‑proofing risks.
Made in America Manufacturing Finance Act
The bill concentrates new, clearer support and larger financing options on fully U.S.-based small manufacturers to strengthen domestic supply chains, but it narrows eligibility, raises taxpayer/SBA financial risk, and creates administrative and legal uncertainty that could delay or limit benefits for some firms.
Investing in All of America Act of 2025
The bill boosts SBICs' ability to deploy capital—potentially increasing investment into targeted small businesses and providing predictability for licensees—while raising taxpayer exposure and risking an uneven distribution of benefits and short-term fairness issues for firms that invested just before enactment.
Employee Ownership Representation Act of 2025
The bill establishes new federal institutions and representation to promote employee ownership and transparency—potentially expanding worker wealth and preserving businesses—but it increases federal spending and raises governance, representation, and retirement-risk concerns if programs and safeguards are not carefully implemented.
To extend the SBIR and STTR programs, and for other purposes.
The bill avoids near-term disruption by extending SBIR/STTR funding, pilots, and program flexibilities for one year to support small-business R&D and commercialization, but it adds modest federal costs and prolongs uncertainty and temporary oversight arrangements about the programs' long-term structure.
Middle Market IPO Cost Act
Improving Access to Small Business Information Act
The bill speeds and simplifies submissions to the SEC Advocate and can lower compliance costs for small issuers, but it removes OMB’s PRA review and related safeguards, increasing the risk of duplicative information requests, reduced transparency, and weaker oversight/accountability.
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.
National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act
Creates a recurring federal manufacturing advisory council to strengthen training, supply‑chain resilience, and targeted recovery efforts, but it lacks dedicated funding, has a five‑year sunset, and includes industry representation and discretionary information sharing that could limit effectiveness and transparency.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. supply-chain resilience and prioritizes domestic and emerging-technology production through federal coordination and support, but it raises federal costs, may increase consumer prices, reduces some transparency, and creates funding and timing uncertainties that could limit effectiveness.
Promoting Opportunities for Non-Traditional Capital Formation Act
The bill aims to help underserved small businesses access capital through SEC outreach and state coordination, but its impact depends heavily on whether regulators have the sustained resources and stronger-than-annual engagement needed to make those efforts meaningful rather than administrative obligations.
Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2025
The bill creates federal leadership, guidance, and transparency to encourage responsible blockchain adoption and U.S. competitiveness, but it risks increased costs for small firms and taxpayers, stakeholder ambiguity, and potential industry influence or uneven security outcomes.
CEASE Act of 2025
The bill trades tighter oversight and lower administrative complexity by limiting the number of authorized lenders against reduced access to loans, less competition and higher costs for some small businesses, plus concentration and discretion risks for the SBA.
American Entrepreneurs First Act of 2025
The bill increases clarity and enforces citizenship/LPR-based eligibility for SBA loans—giving eligible U.S. citizen and LPR small-business owners more predictable access while excluding many immigrant entrepreneurs and risking reduced lending and economic harm in communities that depend on immigrant-owned businesses.
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
The bill enforces federal immigration-alignment by restricting SBA field office presence and protecting affected employees through reassignment, at the cost of reduced local service access for small businesses, employee disruption, administrative expenses, and strained federal–local relations.
Transparency and Predictability in Small Business Opportunities Act
The bill improves transparency and directs OSDBU support to help small businesses when solicitations are cancelled, but it adds administrative burdens and — because it lacks (and even prohibits) implementation funding — risks inconsistent help and limited real-world impact.
