H.R. 832 · 119th Congress · Commerce
Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Feb 24, 2025
Roll call ↗396
15
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 31, 2025
- CommitteeJan 31, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 24, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 3
- 2 Democrats, 1 Republican
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipHouse Committee on Small Business
- Lobbying
- At least 3
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
This bill rewrites part of the mandate of the SBA's Office of Advocacy.
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 rewrites part of the mandate of the SBA's Office of Advocacy. It expands the Office's function of examining the role of small business in the economy to also cover the international economy. It fixes two typographical errors in existing law, changing complete to compete and serviced-disabled to service-disabled. It also adds a new duty: the Office is to represent the views and interests of small businesses before foreign governments and international entities on regulatory and trade initiatives that may affect small businesses.
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 3 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 2 organizations lobbying for themselves 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: Specialty Equipment Market Association; National Small Business Association; Hch Enterprises, LLC. 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.