HR 4495 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act

Latest action · Dec 2, 2025 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 281.

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

Summary

SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act

This bill extends the statute of limitations to 10 years for fraud-based criminal and civil offenses with respect to the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund COVID-19 relief programs.

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 17, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NJHerbert C. Conaway, Jr.OriginalJul 17, 2025
D-VAEugene Simon VindmanJul 23, 2025

Committees 1

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

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseSmall Business Committee
Referred Jul 17, 2025Markup Jul 22, 2025Reported Aug 15, 2025

Actions 12

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 2, 2025Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 281.
  2. Dec 1, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4914-4916)
  3. Dec 1, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4914-4916)
  4. Dec 1, 2025Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  5. Dec 1, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4495.
  6. Dec 1, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  7. Aug 15, 2025Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-226.
  8. Aug 15, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 184.
  9. Jul 22, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  10. Jul 22, 2025Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 0.
  11. Jul 17, 2025Introduced in House
  12. Jul 17, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

In the Congressional Record 1

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
HouseDebate and remarks H4914–H4916Text printed H4915Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. D-CA, Herbert C. Conaway, Jr. D-NJ, Roger Williams R-TX, Troy Downing R-MTDec 1, 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

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. 123, July 17, 2025, page H3476.

Printed hearings 1

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

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1199SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension ActRelated billMay 4, 2026

Titles 6

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

Official Title as Introduced
To extend the statute of limitations for fraud under certain pandemic programs, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
Short Title(s) as Reported to House
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
Short Title(s) as Passed House
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
To extend the statute of limitations for fraud under certain pandemic programs, 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 2, 2025Placed on Calendar Senate
  2. Dec 1, 2025Engrossed in House
  3. Aug 15, 2025Reported in House
  4. Jul 17, 2025Introduced in House

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