Small businesses get a hotline to report hard rules.

What it does

The bill tells the Small Business Administration to set up a hotline. Small businesses can report rules and policies they find hard to follow. The agency must collect complaints each year and sort them. It must tell Congress and the SBA leader what it found. It must also suggest ways to make rules easier.

Who it affects

Small businesses can use the hotline to report problems. Congress and the SBA leader will read reports about complaints. Other government agencies do not have to change anything.

One thing to notice

The bill collects complaints but does not require any agency to fix problems or respond to them.

From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.

Where it stands

3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.

• Jul 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Jul 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Small Business and Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Small Business”
• Nov 18, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
• Nov 18, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 9”
• Dec 3, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 269 - 146 (Roll no. 311). (text: CR 12/02/2025 H4989-4990)”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

4 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.

Those reports show $22,312,577 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 40 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.

More groups named this bill than 72% of bills with any report.

Tony Wied, who sponsored the bill, received $602,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.

• Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $17,960,000 in 1 report
• American Petroleum Institute — $2,780,000 in 1 report
• Associated Builders and Contractors Inc — $1,400,000 in 2 reports
• Public Citizen — $172,577 in 2 reports

Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.

Words to know

• Small Business Administration — A government agency that helps small businesses start and grow.
• hotline — A phone or online system where people can report problems.
• policies — Official plans or rules that an agency follows.
• lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
• PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
• sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.