Oversight and Transparency for Small Business Certifications Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
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Summary
Annual transparency for small-business certifications. This bill requires the Small Business Administration to send Congress a detailed report each year alongside the President's budget that shows who gets certified for key SBA contracting programs and how long decisions take.
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- For all small businesses, the report must show the total number of unique firms certified, applications with enough information for a decision, and pending applications, broken out across four covered contracting programs (Sections 8(a), 8(m), 31, and 36).
- For service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, it must list counts certified, denied, and pending, plus timing metrics such as the share decided within SBA timeframes and average decision times for first-time and recertification applicants.
- For women-owned small businesses, it requires counts certified, counts eligible for sole-source awards under section 8(m)(7), counts handled by national certifying entities, denials, pending cases, whether applications initially lacked sufficient information, and timing breakdowns by initial and recertification applications.
- For HUBZone firms, it must report counts certified, denied, and pending, plus timing metrics including percent decided within agency timeframes and average times for first-time and recertification decisions.
- The report must also show how many applicants sought certifications for two or more programs and the share that received multiple certifications, how many applications came through the SBA's single unified platform, and how many certification records remain in other systems.
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Annual SBA certification report
If enacted, the Small Business Administration would send a detailed report to Congress each year with the President's budget. The report would show counts of certifications approved, denied, and pending for each covered program: Section 8(a), Section 8(m), Section 31, and Section 36. It would show application processing counts, how many applications lacked enough information for a decision, and how many had no determination. The report would show timing metrics like average days to decide and percent decided within SBA timeframes for first-time and recertification cases. It would break out SDVOSB, WOSB (including sole-source eligible counts and national certifier processing), HUBZone, multi-program applicants, and whether records are in the SBA's unified platform or other systems.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
MD • D
Cosponsors
Wied
WI • R
Sponsored 5/19/2026
Roll Call Votes
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