H.R. 2966 · 119th Congress · Commerce
American Entrepreneurs First Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jun 6, 2025
Roll call ↗217
190
Passed the House.
Passed the House on June 6, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- IntroducedApr 17, 2025
- CommitteeMay 21, 2025
- Passed HouseJun 6, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipHouse Committee on Small Business
- Lobbying
- At least 1
- organization named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Requires applications for SBA 7(a) business loans and title V (SBIC) loans to include citizenship-status documentation, and bars certain noncitizens from receiving those loans.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, June 6, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
Requires applications for SBA 7(a) business loans and title V (SBIC) loans to include citizenship-status documentation, and bars certain noncitizens from receiving those loans. Each application must state the date of birth of every individual applicant or owner, certify U.S. citizenship, national, or lawful-permanent-resident status, certify that a business applicant or guarantor is 100 percent owned by such individuals, certify that no owner is an ineligible person, and provide alien registration numbers for any lawful permanent residents involved. An applicant is ineligible if the application lacks this information or if the applicant or any owner is an ineligible person. Ineligible persons include asylees, refugees, visa holders, nonimmigrants, recipients of DACA, and anyone present without lawful immigration status.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 1 organization named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 6 quarterly reports filed by 1 organization lobbying for itself in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organization named: National Small Business Association. Listed as filed. It is every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.