S 298 · 119th Congress 2025โ€“2027

Returning SBA to Main Street Act

Latest action · Mar 4, 2025 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.

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. IntroducedJan 29, 2025
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 29, 2025.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TNMarsha BlackburnOriginalJan 29, 2025
R-SCTim ScottOriginalJan 29, 2025

Committees 1

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

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
SenateSmall Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Referred Jan 29, 2025Markup Feb 21, 2025Reported Mar 4, 2025

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 4, 2025Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  2. Mar 4, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.
  3. Feb 20, 2025Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  4. Jan 29, 2025Introduced in Senate
  5. Jan 29, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

  1. Jun 27, 2025S. 298, Returning SBA to Main Street ActAs reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on March 4, 2025

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 2027Returning SBA to Main Street Act of 2025Related billMay 21, 2025

Titles 3

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

Official Title as Introduced
A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to headquarters to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced
Returning SBA to Main Street Act
Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
Returning SBA to Main Street Act

Subjects

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

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Mar 4, 2025Reported to Senate
  2. Jan 29, 2025Introduced in Senate

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