119-hr2968

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2968 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2968

 To limit the authority of the Small Business Administration to 
 facilitate access to voter registration, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 17, 2025

Mr. Williams of Texas (for himself, Mr. Alford, Ms. King-Hinds, Ms. Van 
 Duyne, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Wied, Mr. Jack, Mr. 
 Downing, Mr. Bresnahan, Mr. Patronis, and Mr. Finstad) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business, 
and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period 
 to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
 committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To limit the authority of the Small Business Administration to 
 facilitate access to voter registration, 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 ``Business over Ballots Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

 It is the sense of Congress that--

    (1) the Small Business Administration should focus on 
 aiding and assisting small business concerns;

    (2) facilitating access to voter registration is beyond the 
 scope of the mission of the Administration and the authority of 
 the Administration under Federal law; and

    (3) any Executive order issued by the President may not 
 conflict with this Act or otherwise compel the Administrator of 
 the Small Business Administration to facilitate access to voter 
 registration.

SEC. 3. LIMITATIONS ON FACILITATION OF ACCESS TO VOTER REGISTRATION BY 
 THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Prohibition.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration may not take any action to facilitate access to voter 
registration other than actions authorized by Federal law.

    (b) Terms of Contracts.--On or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, any contract or other agreement entered into by the 
Administrator to provide assistance to a person shall include a term 
stating that such person may not use such assistance to facilitate 
access to voter registration.
            (c) Existing Recipients.--A recipient of assistance from the 
Administrator may not use such assistance to facilitate access to voter 
registration unless explicitly authorized by the terms of such 
assistance.
            (d) Covered Entities.--The Administrator may not use, act through, 
or otherwise make a request of a covered entity to engage in activities 
to facilitate access to voter registration unless the Administrator is 
so authorized by Congress.

    (e) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this Act:

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

    (2) Covered entity.--The term ``covered entity''--
        (A) means an entity, State government, or unit of 
 local government that receives funding or other 
 assistance from the Administrator under a contract, 
 cooperative agreement, memorandum of understanding, or 
 other agreement to carry out a program administered by 
 the Administrator; and
        (B) does not include a person that receives a loan 
 or loan guarantee under 

section 7 of the Small Business 
 Act (15 U.S.C. 636).
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