H.R. 2987 · 119th Congress · Commerce
CEASE Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jun 5, 2025
Roll call ↗214
198
Passed the House.
Passed the House on June 5, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- IntroducedApr 24, 2025
- CommitteeMay 21, 2025
- Passed HouseJun 5, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- None
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipHouse Committee on Small Business
- Lobbying
- At least 6
- organizations named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill caps the number of for-profit small business lending companies that may make SBA section 7 loans at 16 at any one time.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, June 5, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill caps the number of for-profit small business lending companies that may make SBA section 7 loans at 16 at any one time. It amends Section 23 of the Small Business Act by adding a new subsection (k) directing the Administrator to ensure that no more than 16 such companies that are not nonprofit entities hold that lending authority simultaneously. Nonprofit lending companies are excluded from the cap.
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 6 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 22 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 5 organizations lobbying for themselves 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.
5 of them, in no ranking: Credit Union National Association, Inc. dba America's Credit Unions; American Bankers Association; Independent Community Bankers of America; National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders Inc; Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 1 other is not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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.