HR 832
Passed a chamber
Adds international economic work to the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy and directs the office to represent small businesses before foreign governments and international bodies on trade and regulatory matters.
Official title: Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
31-JAN-2025
Referred
31-JAN-2025
Passed
24-FEB-2025
Senate
Received
25-FEB-2025
- Adds the international economy to the Office of Advocacy's primary functions under existing law.
- Requires the office to represent small business views before foreign governments and international entities on regulatory and trade initiatives that may affect small businesses.
- Corrects three wording errors in the existing statute, including changing "complete" to "compete" and "serviced-disabled" to "service-disabled".
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (31-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