H.R. 825 · 119th Congress · Commerce
Assisting Small Businesses Not Fraudsters Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Feb 24, 2025
Roll call ↗405
0
Passed the House.
Passed the House on February 24, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- IntroducedJan 28, 2025
- CommitteeJan 28, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 24, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 3
- all Democrats
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipHouse Committee on Small Business
- Lobbying
- At least 2
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill bars people convicted of certain financial crimes from getting SBA money.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, February 24, 2025
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill bars people convicted of certain financial crimes from getting SBA money. It amends the Small Business Act so that an associate of a small business who is finally convicted of a crime involving financial misconduct or a false statement tied to a covered loan or grant becomes ineligible for SBA financial assistance. A small business that has such a convicted associate is also cut off. The one carve-out is section 7(b) disaster assistance, which stays available. Covered loans and grants include PPP loans, certain COVID-era disaster loans, and Restaurant Revitalization and Shuttered Venue grants. An associate is defined to include officers, directors, key employees, and owners of more than 20 percent. Finally convicted means the conviction is no longer appealable or the appeal is finished. The prohibition does not reach any government contract or agreement entered before enactment.
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 2 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 10 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 1 organization lobbying for itself in 2025 Q1, 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 organizations named: Hch Enterprises, LLC; National Small Business Association. Listed as filed. They are 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.