The record

LegislationLegislation· Dec 2025
HR 2965 Passed House — in Senate

Sponsored by Beth Van Duyne (R)

Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025

Requires the SBA to keep its annual regulatory costs to small businesses at zero starting in 2026.

Tradeoff

Prevents the Small Business Administration from issuing new rules or modifying existing rules that impose costs on small businesses. No funding offset or trade-off is specified in the bill.

What's in it

See official bill text

Zero federal cost over 2025-2035; any spending would be insignificant and subject to .

The federal cost to enforce this requirement is negligible because the SBA already collects the data needed—the bill's real impact is on federal agencies, which must ensure their regulatory changes do not increase small business compliance costs in any given .

H.R. 2965, Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 · Aug 2025

The House passed this 223-190 on December 3, 2025 — sitting in the Senate.

  1. House

    Introduced

    (Apr 17, 2025)

  2. House

    Committee on Small Business(Apr 17, 2025)

  3. House

    The Committee on Small Business voted to send it to the floor

    Reported 15 - 11(Apr 30, 2025)

    Committee report H. Rept. 119-111.

  4. House

    Passage of the bill

    Passed(Roll #310 · Dec 3, 2025)

    223 yeanay 190

  5. Senate

    Received from the House

    on Small Business and Entrepreneurship(Dec 4, 2025)

Passage votes so far· Dec 3, 2025· 119th Congress · 2025–2027