Business over Ballots Act
Sponsored By: Representative Williams (TX)
In Committee
Summary
Bars the Small Business Administration from using its programs or contracts to facilitate voter registration. The bill makes SBA focus on aiding small businesses and stops the agency and its partners from using SBA assistance to sign people up to vote except where Federal law or Congress explicitly allow it.
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- SBA operations and staff must not take actions to facilitate voter registration except as authorized by Federal law. The Administrator also may not direct covered entities to carry out voter registration activities unless Congress permits it.
- New contracts and agreements must include a term forbidding recipients from using SBA-provided assistance to facilitate voter registration. That rule applies on and after the law's enactment.
- Existing recipients that get assistance under SBA contracts, cooperative agreements, or memorandums of understanding may not use that assistance for voter registration unless the assistance terms explicitly authorize it. Loans and loan guarantees under section 7 are not treated as covered entities.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Limits on Small Business Administration voter registration
If enacted, the Small Business Administration would be barred from helping people register to vote, unless federal law already allows it. Any contracts or agreements signed on or after enactment would have to forbid using SBA-funded help for voter registration. Current recipients could not use SBA assistance for voter registration unless their terms already say they can. The Administrator would not be able to ask covered entities to do voter registration unless Congress authorizes it. A covered entity would include entities and state or local governments that get SBA funding under an agreement, but not people who receive SBA section 7 loans or guarantees.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Williams (TX)
TX • R
Cosponsors
Del. King-Hinds, Kimberlyn [R-MP-At Large]
MP • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Van Duyne
TX • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Ellzey
TX • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Wied
WI • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Jack
GA • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Downing
MT • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Alford
MO • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Schmidt
KS • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Meuser
PA • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Bresnahan
PA • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Patronis
FL • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
Finstad
MN • R
Sponsored 4/17/2025
LaLota
NY • R
Sponsored 4/28/2025
Stauber
MN • R
Sponsored 4/28/2025
Fry
SC • R
Sponsored 10/21/2025
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