SBA to build free small-business permit guide—cutting red tape for startups
H.R. 4824 — One Stop Shop for Small Business Licensing Act of 2025 · Filed by Shri Thanedar (D-MI) · 4 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurship Education to create and maintain a free public website within one year that consolidates federal, state, and local permitting and licensing requirements for small businesses, organized by location and business type. The goal is to reduce the time and confusion small business owners face when navigating overlapping regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a mandate to create a public information resource. It does not regulate, subsidize, or restrict any party—it simply requires the SBA to aggregate and publish existing regulatory requirements in a user-friendly format.
What the text implies
- Website maintenance cost and accuracy responsibility falls on SBA; outdated or incomplete information could expose the agency to criticism if small businesses rely on it and encounter regulatory surprises.
- The bill does not specify enforcement mechanisms if the Director fails to establish or maintain the website, or standards for information currency and completeness.
- State and local governments are not required to provide their permitting/licensing data to the SBA; the website's utility depends on voluntary cooperation and public records already available.
- The bill does not address how the website will handle jurisdictions with frequent regulatory changes, potentially creating a lag between real requirements and published information.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Small business owners and prospective entrepreneurs gain a free, centralized resource that reduces time spent hunting fragmented regulatory information across federal, state, and local agencies. This lowers barriers to business formation and compliance, particularly for first-time entrepreneurs and underserved communities with less access to legal/regulatory counsel.
Named in the bill
Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Entrepreneurship Education, Director of the Office of Entrepreneurship Education
Where it stands
4 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Jul 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 29, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Small Business · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Small Business”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $750,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 28 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Shri Thanedar, the sponsor, reported $84,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Doordash, Inc. — $750,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (867 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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