HR 8882
Passed a chamber
Requires the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission to report to the Small Business Administration on how their antitrust enforcement affects small businesses, and adds competitive markets to the federal small business policy statement.
Official title: Main Street Competes Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
19-MAY-2026
Referred
19-MAY-2026
Approved by committee
20-MAY-2026
Reported
03-JUN-2026
On the calendar
03-JUN-2026
Passed
23-JUN-2026
Senate
Received
24-JUN-2026
- Adds promoting competitive markets, consumer choice, and business ownership through antitrust enforcement to the policy declaration in the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980.
- Requires the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission to report on antitrust complaints from small businesses, the enforcement actions taken, and enforcement actions opened on their own initiative, within 180 days after each reporting fiscal year and every two fiscal years after that.
- Requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy to summarize those reports by industry and recommend administrative and legislative actions to promote competition, deter anticompetitive conduct, and remedy it, then send the findings to the House and Senate small business committees.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (03-JUN-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 23-JUN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Small Business Committee (House)
- Judiciary Committee (Senate)
Commerce
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