Small Business Office Gets Power in International Trade Talks
H.R. 832 — Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025 · Filed by Roger Williams (R-TX) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 31, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill gives the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy a new job. It must speak for small businesses in talks with foreign governments and world trade groups. The bill also fixes three spelling and word errors in old laws.
Who it affects
Small businesses gain a federal voice in international trade and rule-making. The Office of Advocacy will represent their interests in talks with other countries.
One thing to notice
The bill does not give the office money to do this work. The office will need more staff and budget later.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jan 31, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 31, 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”
- Feb 24, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Feb 24, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Sep 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $760,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 30 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Roger Williams, who sponsored the bill, received $513,351 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Specialty Equipment Market Association — $760,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Office of Advocacy — A part of the Small Business Administration that speaks up for small business interests.
- international trade — Buying and selling goods and services between countries, and the rules that govern it.
- foreign governments — The leaders and officials of other countries.
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,033 characters) on Jun 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Sep 2025 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 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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