HR 2965 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025

Latest action · Dec 4, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 17, 2025
  2. Passed HouseDec 3, 2025
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025

This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure the annual small business regulatory budget for the SBA in each fiscal year is no greater than zero.

The small business regulatory budget is the cost to a small business of a federal rulemaking, including the cost resulting from the issuance of any new rule and the cost resulting from the modification or repeal of an existing rule.

Recorded votes 1

Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.

Roll callQuestionResultDate
House 310On PassagePassed223–190Dec 3, 2025

Yea 223

Nay 190

Cosponsors 5

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 17, 2025 to Apr 28, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-MPKimberlyn King-HindsOriginalApr 17, 2025
R-FLAaron BeanApr 28, 2025
R-MNBrad FinstadApr 28, 2025
R-PADaniel MeuserApr 28, 2025
R-KSDerek SchmidtApr 28, 2025

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseSmall Business Committee
Referred Apr 17, 2025Markup Apr 30, 2025Reported May 21, 2025
SenateSmall Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Referred Dec 4, 2025

Actions 15

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 4, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  2. Dec 3, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5011)
  3. Dec 3, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 223 - 190 (Roll no. 310). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR 12/02/2025 H4987)
  4. Dec 3, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  5. Dec 2, 2025Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 916. (consideration: CR H4987-4989)

In the Congressional Record 2

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseRecorded votes H5011enact—Dec 3, 2025
HouseDebate and remarks H4972, H4978–H4987, H4987–H4989Text printed H4978, H4987Amendments H4985Recorded votes H4986consideration (H. Res. 916), previous questionBeth Van Duyne R-TX, Derek Schmidt R-KS, H. Morgan Griffith R-VA, James P. McGovern D-MA (amendment), Mark Alford R-MO, Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY, Roger Williams R-TX, Tracey Mann R-KSDec 2, 2025

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Committee report

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

  1. Aug 18, 2025H.R. 2965, Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on May 21, 2025

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1 Sec. 8

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 67, April 17, 2025, page H1614.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Amendments 1

Amendments offered to this bill.

AmendmentDescriptionOffered byStatus
HAmdt 111Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 916, the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Small Business printed in the bill is considered adopted.Rules CommitteeOn agreeing to the Rules amendment (A001) Agreed to without objection.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Titles 6

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Short Title(s) as Reported to House
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Short Title(s) as Passed House
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 4

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Dec 4, 2025Referred in Senate
  2. Dec 3, 2025Engrossed in House
  3. May 21, 2025Reported in House
  4. Apr 17, 2025Introduced in House

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