Bill creates a hotline for small businesses to report strict federal rules.

What it does

The Small Business Administration must create a hotline. Small businesses can call, email, or use a web form to report federal rules. The SBA must publish a yearly report to Congress. The report lists which rules get the most complaints. It names which agencies made them and suggests ways to make rules easier. No agency has to change its rules.

Who it affects

Small businesses can use the hotline to report rules they find hard to follow. Federal agencies will get the yearly reports but do not have to act on them.

One thing to notice

The hotline lets small businesses complain about rules, but no one must listen. The bill does not say what makes a rule too hard to follow.

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 $586,500 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 federal agency that helps small businesses start and grow.
• hotline — A phone number, email, or website where people can report a problem.
• yearly report — A document sent once a year with facts about what happened.
• 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.