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H.R. 2965

U.S. House•In Senate Committee

Summary

H.R. 2965, the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025, was introduced in the House on Apr 17, 2025 by Rep. Elizabeth Van Duyne (R) with 5 co-sponsors. It was referred to Small Business And Entrepreneurship, and last saw action on Dec 4, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Record

Text

H.R. 2965 has 5 co-sponsors, 1 roll call and 1 amendment.

hb2965/engrossed-in-house.txt
119 HR 2965 EH: Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025
 U.S. House of Representatives
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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 119th CONGRESS  1st Session
 H. R. 2965
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 AN ACT
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.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025  .
2.
Small Business Administration rulemaking costs to small business concerns
(a)
Definitions
In this section:
(1)
Administrator
The term  Administrator  means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
(2)
Rule; rulemaking
The terms  rule  and  rulemaking  have the meanings given those terms in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
(3)
Small business
The term  small business  has the same meaning as the term  small business concern  under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ), unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes any such definitions in the Federal Register.
(4)
Small business regulatory budget
The term  small business regulatory budget  means the cost to a small business of a rulemaking conducted by a Federal agency, including the cost resulting from the issuance of any new rule and the cost resulting from the modification or repeal of an existing rule.
(b)
Requirement
In fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator shall ensure that the small business regulatory budget for the Small Business Administration for the applicable fiscal year is not greater than zero.
(c)
Advocacy Report
Not later than 60 days after the end of fiscal year 2025, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration shall submit to Congress a report regarding rules issued by Federal agencies other than the Administration during the preceding fiscal year that have an impact on small businesses, which shall—
(1)
include the total small business regulatory budgets for the preceding fiscal year for each Federal agency;
(2)
include each such rule issued during the preceding fiscal year; and
(3)
be disaggregated by the Federal agency that issued each such rule.
3.
No additional funds
No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.
    Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025.  Kevin F. McCumber,  Clerk.

Tracker

The tracker indicates the progress of this legislation as it moves through the legislative process.

  1. Introduced2025-04-17
  2. Passed House2025-12-03
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Conference
  5. To President
  6. Became Law

CRS Summary

The summaries are the Congressional Research Service’s, one per stage. Read them in full.

Reported to House May 21, 2025

hb2965/reported-to-house.md

Shown Here:
Reported to House (05/21/2025)

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.

Sponsors

Rep. Elizabeth Van Duyne (R) sponsors H.R. 2965, and 5 members have co-sponsored it, 1 of them from the day it was introduced.

Committees

H.R. 2965 went before 2 committees: Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Referred To · Dec 4, 2025 · 80 Bills
Small Business
Small Business
Reported By · May 21, 2025 · 81 Bills

Reports

1 committee report has been filed on H.R. 2965, the latest H. Rept. 119-111.

Actions

H.R. 2965 has taken 16 actions since Apr 17, 2025, the latest on Dec 4, 2025.

ChamberAction
Dec 4, 2025
Senate
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Dec 3, 202516:01
House
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5011)
Dec 3, 202516:33
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)House roll call 310 223–190
Dec 3, 202516:33
House
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Dec 3, 202516:33
—
Passed/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) roll call 310

Votes

H.R. 2965 went to 1 roll call in the House, the latest on Dec 3, 2025 at 223–190.

ChamberQuestion
Yea
Nay
Dec 3, 2025
House
On Passage
223
190

Amendments

1 amendment has been offered to H.R. 2965, the latest acted on Dec 2, 2025.

1 bill is related to H.R. 2965, as Procedurally related.

HRES 916Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair competition with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1005) to prohibit elementary and secondary schools from accepting funds from or entering into contracts with the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1049) to ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child’s public school, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1069) to prohibit the availability of Federal education funds for elementary and secondary schools that receive direct or indirect support from the Government of the People’s Republic of China; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) 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; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4305) to direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.Dec 2, 2025 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · Procedurally related

Titles

H.R. 2965 goes by 7 titles, 4 of them short titles.

  • Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 — Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
  • Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Passed House
  • 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. — Official Titles from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
  • Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Reported to House
  • Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 — Display Title
  • Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) 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. — Official Title as Introduced

Cost estimate

The Congressional Budget Office has filed 1 estimate for H.R. 2965, the latest on Aug 18, 2025.

Lobbying

2 clients hired 2 firms and 12 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 2965 in 5 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Small Business, Banking, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Computer Industry, Consumer Issues/Safety/Products, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Government Issues, Health Issues.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

ClientBusinessStateFirmsFilingsReported
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)—Virginia13—
PUBLIC CITIZEN—District of Columbia12—

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

RegistrantClientsFilingsReported
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)13—
PUBLIC CITIZEN12—

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill.

LobbyistFirmsClientsFilings
KAREN KERRIGAN113
RAYMOND KEATING113
CRAIG HOLMAN112
EAGAN KEMP112
ELIZABETH SKERRY112
JONATHAN GOLINGER112
JOSHUA BRANCH112
KATHERINE TRACY112
MARTHA PEREZ-PEDEMONTI112
STEVEN KNIEVEL112
SUSAN HARLEY112
BARTLETT NAYLOR111

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

ClientRegistrantPeriodReportedDocument
PUBLIC CITIZENPUBLIC CITIZEN2026 first_quarter$100.4K1st Quarter - Report
PUBLIC CITIZENPUBLIC CITIZEN2025 fourth_quarter$73K4th Quarter - Report
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)2025 second_quarter$65K2nd Quarter - Report
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)2025 third_quarter$55K3rd Quarter - Report
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)2025 fourth_quarter$30K4th Quarter - Report

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 2965 under Commerce, one of its 31 policy areas, and gives it 3 legislative subjects.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 2965’s is Commerce.

hr2965/policy-areas.txt
CommerceAgriculture and FoodAnimalsArmed Forces and National SecurityArts, Culture, ReligionCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesCongressCrime and Law EnforcementEconomics and Public FinanceEducationEmergency ManagementEnergyEnvironmental ProtectionFamiliesFinance and Financial SectorForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment Operations and PoliticsHealthHousing and Community DevelopmentImmigrationInternational AffairsLabor and EmploymentLawNative AmericansPublic Lands and Natural ResourcesScience, Technology, CommunicationsSocial WelfareSports and RecreationTaxationTransportation and Public WorksWater Resources Development

Legislative Subjects

H.R. 2965 carries 3 of CRS’s legislative subjects, from Administrative law and regulatory procedures to Small Business Administration.

hr2965/subjects.txt
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresSmall businessSmall Business Administration

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 2965, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 67 (Thursday, April 17, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Ms. VAN DUYNE:H.R. 2965.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1 Sec. 8[Page H1614]

Source: congress.gov · legiscan.com