HR 828
Passed a chamber
Requires the Small Business Administration to report to Congress on its veterans task force and a plan to promote veteran business programs, and directs the Comptroller General to study how veterans, Reservists, and their spouses access business credit.
Official title: SERV Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
28-JAN-2025
Referred
28-JAN-2025
Passed
24-FEB-2025
Senate
Received
25-FEB-2025
- Requires the SBA Administrator to submit a report with the annual budget justification on the veterans interagency task force and a plan to promote veteran programs.
- Names programs to be covered, including Veteran Business Outreach Centers, Boots to Business, and the Women Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Program.
- Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress within one year on credit access for small businesses owned by veterans, service-disabled veterans, Reservists, and their spouses.
- The credit report covers funding sources, default rates, federal lending programs, credit gaps, obstacles borrowers face, and awareness of federal credit programs.
- Does not authorize any additional appropriations.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (28-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 24-FEB-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Small Business Committee (House)
- Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee (Senate)
Commerce
■ 2 D■ 1 R
2 Democrats
1 Republican