Congress locks in small business permitting guidance online
S. 1786 — One Stop Shop for Small Business Licensing Act of 2025 · Filed by Jacky Rosen (D-NV) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced May 15, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to maintain and keep publicly available a website that helps small business owners find federal, state, and local permitting and licensing requirements. The website currently exists at sba.gov/business-guide/launch-your-business/apply-licenses-permits; the bill ensures it stays online and accessible, even if the SBA moves it to a new web address or updates its content.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward mandate to preserve and maintain a public-facing informational resource. It is not a tax measure, subsidy, or regulatory change—it is a statutory guarantee of continued access to existing SBA guidance.
What the text implies
- Codifying the website in statute makes it harder for future administrations to deprioritize or defund the permitting-guidance function without explicit legislative action.
- The definition of 'covered website' includes successor sites with 'substantially similar' information, which may allow the SBA flexibility in platform migration but could create disputes over what counts as substantially similar.
- By requiring the website to reflect 'applicable changes' in permitting requirements, the bill implicitly mandates that the SBA keep the resource current—a modest but real ongoing compliance obligation.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Small business owners and entrepreneurs gain a durable statutory guarantee that a consolidated resource for navigating permitting and licensing requirements will remain accessible. This reduces friction and information asymmetry when starting or operating a business, lowering compliance costs and barriers to entry.
Named in the bill
Small Business Administration (SBA), SBA Administrator
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- May 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 15, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $800,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 16 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 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Jacky Rosen, the sponsor, reported $207,550 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Doordash, Inc. — $750,000 on 1 filing
- Shopify Inc. — $50,000 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 (1,223 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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