Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
The bill requires the SBA Administrator to include a report with the agency’s annual budget justification describing appointments, activities, and an outreach plan for veterans entrepreneurship programs. It also directs the Comptroller General to produce a GAO report within one year analyzing how veterans, service-disabled veterans, Reservists, and their spouses access credit, including sources, default rates, federal program availability, gaps, obstacles, deployment effects, and awareness.
Whether report-only requirements are sufficient to fix problems
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is primarily a reporting requirement that is well-scoped and reasonably well-constructed: it assigns responsibility, specifies recipients, and enumerates substantive content for the GAO report while integrating the SBA report into existing budget processes.
The bill requires the SBA Administrator to include a report with the agency’s annual budget justification describing appointments, activities, and an outreach plan for veterans entrepreneurship programs.
It also directs the Comptroller General to produce a GAO report within one year analyzing how veterans, service-disabled veterans, Reservists, and their spouses access credit, including sources, default rates, federal program availability, gaps, obstacles, deployment effects, and awareness.
Definitions are added and no new appropriations are authorized.
Narrow, noncontroversial reporting requirements with no new spending; historically such measures have high enactment rates.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is primarily a reporting requirement that is well-scoped and reasonably well-constructed: it assigns responsibility, specifies recipients, and enumerates substantive content for the GAO report while integrating the SBA report into existing budget processes.
Whether report-only requirements are sufficient to fix problems
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Whether report-only requirements are sufficient to fix problems
Generally supportive because it improves oversight and seeks to identify barriers veteran entrepreneurs face.
Views the explicit inclusion of Reservists, service-disabled veterans, women veterans, and spouses positively, but wants stronger, funded follow-through beyond reporting.
Cautious approval: a limited, low-cost oversight measure that can produce useful data for policymakers.
Wants clarity on how findings will translate into action and to avoid duplicate reporting burdens on SBA.
Likely supportive because it increases oversight without new spending and aids veterans.
Wary of creating expectations for expanded federal programs, preferring market-driven credit solutions and reduced regulatory barriers.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
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Narrow, noncontroversial reporting requirements with no new spending; historically such measures have high enactment rates.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Whether report-only requirements are sufficient to fix problems
Narrow, noncontroversial reporting requirements with no new spending; historically such measures have high enactment rates.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is primarily a reporting requirement that is well-scoped and reasonably well-constructed: it assigns responsibility, specifies recipients, and enumerates substantive…
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