Bill Details
S.371 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-04 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 23.
Introduced Date
2025-02-03
Policy Area
Commerce
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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This bill would make the Small Business Administration post certain disaster-assistance reports on its website, instead of only sending them to Congress. The goal is to make it easier for the public, small businesses, and other interested people to find information about how disaster aid is being handled. In simple terms, the bill is about transparency: it adds a public online posting requirement for reports that are already being prepared and submitted under current law.
- It changes existing reporting rules so that certain disaster-assistance reports must be both submitted to Congress and published on the SBA website.
- The bill applies to several types of reports connected to small business disaster assistance, including reports required under different parts of the law.
- It does not create a new disaster aid program or change who can receive assistance; it mainly changes how the reports are shared with the public.
- The overall purpose is to make disaster-assistance information easier to access and more open to public review.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 371 Reported in Senate (RS)]
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Calendar No. 23
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 371
To require certain reports on small business disaster assistance to be
published on the website of the Small Business Administration, and for
other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 3, 2025
Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Budd, Mrs.
Blackburn, Mr. Scott of Florida, and Mr. Warner) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
March 4, 2025
Reported by Ms. Ernst, without amendment
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To require certain reports on small business disaster assistance to be
published on the website of the Small Business Administration, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``SBA Disaster Transparency Act''.
SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF REPORTS ON DISASTER ASSISTANCE.
Section 12091 of the Small Business Disaster Response and Loan
Improvements Act of 2008 (15 U.S.C. 636k) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and publish on
the website of the Administration'' after
``Representatives''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and published'' after
``submitted'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and publish on
the website of the Administration'' after
``Representatives''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and published'' after
``submitted'';
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and publish on
the website of the Administration'' after
``Representatives''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and published'' after
``submitted''; and
(4) in subsection (e)--
(A) in paragraph (1)--
(i) by striking ``a report''; and
(ii) by inserting ``and publish on the
website of the Administration a report'' after
``Representatives''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and published'' after
``submitted''.
Calendar No. 23
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 371
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To require certain reports on small business disaster assistance to be
published on the website of the Small Business Administration, and for
other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
March 4, 2025
Reported without amendment