Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act

What this does

This bill amends the Small Business Act to authorize a new Office of Native American Affairs inside the Small Business Administration. The office would aim the agency's existing entrepreneurial development, contracting, and capital access programs toward Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. It would be led by an Assistant Administrator appointed by and reporting to the SBA Administrator, who could provide grants and other financial assistance to Tribes, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and qualifying nonprofits. The text says the office "may be established," so it authorizes the office rather than compelling it, and the authority ends seven years after enactment.

Passed the House by voice vote

How we know · 7 sourced claims

The bill amends the Small Business Act to authorize an Office of Native American Affairs within the Small Business Administration.Source: Sec. 2, new 15 U.S.C. section 49(b)(1)
The text is permissive, stating the office "may be established" rather than requiring it.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(b)(1)
The office would target the SBA's entrepreneurial development, contracting, and capital access programs toward Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(b)(1)
The office would be headed by an Assistant Administrator for Native American Affairs appointed by and reporting to the SBA Administrator.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(c)(1)
The Assistant Administrator could provide grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other financial assistance to Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and qualifying nonprofits governed by their members.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(c)(6)
The Assistant Administrator must submit an annual report to Congress on the office's effectiveness.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(d)
The authority under the section terminates seven years after enactment.Source: Sec. 2, new section 49(e)

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Reported lobbying

No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence.

That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed. This bill may have been lobbied without being named, or named in words we would not risk reading as this bill.

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 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.