Rural Small Business Resilience Act
Where it stands
- Introduced1/28/25
- Passed HousePassed 2/25/25
- Senate
- President
- Law
Passed the House 415–8 on February 25, 2025 (Roll Call 49 →). Received in the Senate on February 26, 2025. No Senate action since.
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Roll calls on this bill
Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · 2/25/25Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
- Democratic212 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Not voting
- Republican203 Yea · 8 Nay · 7 Not voting
- Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)Full text on congress.gov ↗
Rural Small Business Resilience Act
This bill requires the Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to take necessary actions to ensure that individuals located in rural areas where a disaster has been declared have full access to disaster assistance. Such actions include providing targeted outreach and marketing materials to such individuals.
What happens next
The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.
If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.
All actions (11)
- 1/28/25Introduced in House
- 1/28/25Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
- 2/24/25Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- 2/24/25Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H745-746)
- 2/24/25DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 804.
- 2/24/25At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- 2/25/25Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H824)
- 2/25/25Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 415 - 8 (Roll no. 49). (text: 2/24/2025 CR H746)
- 2/25/25On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 415 - 8 (Roll no. 49). (text: 2/24/2025 CR H746)
- 2/25/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2/26/25Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.