Oversight and Transparency for Small Business Certifications Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
Passed House
Summary
Creates an annual SBA certification report that tracks small business participation across four covered contracting programs. The report would collect counts and processing-time details for applications and certifications for service-disabled veteran-owned, woman-owned, and HUBZone firms and must accompany the President's budget each year.
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- Small businesses: Requires the Administrator to report the total number of unique small businesses certified and a breakdown of applications with sufficient information, multi-program certifications, and where certification records are stored. This covers four covered programs: sections 8(a), 8(m), 31, and 36.
- Service-disabled veteran-owned firms: Requires counts of certified, denied, and pending applications and timeframes that show the share meeting SBA timelines and average wait times for first-time and recertification decisions.
- Woman-owned firms: Requires counts certified, denied, and pending; how many are eligible for sole-source awards under 8(m)(7); how many were processed by national certifying entities; and time-to-decision measures for initial and recertification cases.
- HUBZone firms: Requires counts certified, denied, and pending and time-to-decision measures including percent meeting SBA timelines and average first-time and recertification times.
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Yearly SBA certification report for small firms
If enacted, the SBA Administrator would send Congress a yearly Certification Report with the President’s budget. The report would cover SBA contracting programs under sections 8(a), 8(m) (women‑owned), 31 (HUBZone), and 36 (service‑disabled veteran‑owned). It would list the total number of unique firms certified and counts of applications with enough information that were certified, denied, or still pending. It would show how many applied to two or more programs and the share that got multiple certifications, how many used the single unified application system, and how many records are kept in other systems. For SDVOSB, WOSB, and HUBZone, it would include numbers certified, denied, and pending, plus processing‑time measures (percent decided within SBA’s timeframe and average times for first‑time and recertification decisions). For WOSB, it would also report how many certified firms are eligible for sole‑source awards, how many were processed by national certifiers, and how many sole‑source cases were initially incomplete.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Olszewski, Johnny [D-MD-2]
MD • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8]
WI • R
Sponsored 5/19/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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