119-hr2931

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2931 Referred in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2931

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 9, 2025

 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
 and Entrepreneurship

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 AN ACT

 To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 relocate certain offices of the Small Business Administration in 
 sanctuary jurisdictions, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. RELOCATION OF CERTAIN OFFICES IN SANCTUARY JURISDICTIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator shall relocate each covered 
office located in a sanctuary jurisdiction in accordance with this 
section.

    (b) Determination Required.--Subsection

    (a) shall apply with 
respect to a covered office only if, prior to ordering the relocation 
of such covered office under such subsection, the Administrator makes a 
determination that such covered office is located in a sanctuary 
jurisdiction and makes such determination publicly available.
            (c) Relocation Requirement.--When relocating a covered office under 
this section, the Administrator shall relocate such covered office to a 
location that is not in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
            (d) Relocation Deadline.--

    (1) Deadline.--Not later 120 days after the Administrator 
 makes publicly available a determination under subsection

    (b) with respect to a covered office, the Administrator shall 
 relocate such covered office in accordance with subsection
            (c) .

    (2) Noncompliance.--
        (A) In general.--If a covered office described in 
 paragraph

    (1) is not relocated in accordance with 
 subsection
            (c) prior to the expiration of the 120-day 
 period applicable to such relocation under such 
 paragraph--
            (i) not later 5 days after the expiration 
 of such 120-day period, the head of such 
 covered office shall submit to the 
 Administrator a written explanation of why such 
 covered office was not relocated prior to 
 expiration of such 120-day period; and
            (ii) during the period beginning on the day 
 after expiration of such 120-day period and 
 ending on the date on which such covered office 
 is relocated to a location that is not in a 
 sanctuary jurisdiction--
            (I) such covered office shall cease 
 operations; and
            (II) each employee of the 
 Administration whose duty station was 
 at such covered office shall be 
 assigned to a duty station at another 
 covered office that is located in the 
 same State and not in a sanctuary 
 jurisdiction or, if no other covered 
 office is located in the same State and 
 not in a sanctuary jurisdiction, any 
 other covered office that is not 
 located in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
        (B) Removal.--The Administrator shall immediately 
 remove the head of a covered office required to submit 
 a written explanation under subparagraph
        (A)
            (i) if--
            (i) such head does not submit such a 
 written explanation in accordance with such 
 subparagraph; or
            (ii) the Administrator determines that the 
 reasons provided in the written explanation 
 submitted by such head under such subparagraph 
 for the relocation of such covered office not 
 being completed prior to the expiration of the 
 120-day period described in paragraph

    (1) with 
 respect to such covered office are 
 insufficient.

    (e) New Office Limitation.--The Administrator may not establish a 
covered office in sanctuary jurisdiction.

    (f) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the 
 Small Business Administration.

    (2) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
 Administrator of the Administration.

    (3) Covered office.--The term ``covered office'' means a 
 regional, district, or local office the Administration, other 
 than the headquarters of the Administration, or any other 
 component of the Administration fully funded by funds 
 appropriated by Congress.

    (4) Sanctuary jurisdiction.--The term ``sanctuary 
 jurisdiction'' means a political subdivision of a State that 
 has in effect a statute, ordinance, policy, or practice that 
 prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from--
        (A) sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging 
 with any Federal, State, or local government entity 
 information regarding the citizenship or immigration 
 status (lawful or unlawful) of any individual; or
        (B) complying with a request lawfully made by the 
 Department of Homeland Security under 

section 236 or 
 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
 1226 and 1357) to comply with a detainer for, or notify 
 about the release of, an individual.

 Passed the House of Representatives June 5, 2025.

 Attest:

 KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

 Clerk.