Funding Small Businesses During Shutdown Act

Funding Small Businesses During Shutdown Act

This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to continue servicing loans made under certain Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs if there is a lapse in discretionary appropriations (i.e., government shutdown) in FY2026.

If there is a lapse in FY2026 appropriations for the SBA, the bill provides specified appropriations to pay for the salaries and expenses necessary to continue servicing any loans made under several loan programs authorized by the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.

The bill provides the appropriations for any 30-day period in which there is a lapse in SBA appropriations and on a pro-rated basis if the lapse is less than 30 days.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5568 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5568

     To ensure continued appropriations for certain Small Business 
  Administration programs during a Government shutdown, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2025

Mr. Conaway (for himself, Ms. Simon, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Morrison, 
and Mr. Olszewski) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
     To ensure continued appropriations for certain Small Business 
  Administration programs during a Government shutdown, 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 ``Funding Small Businesses During 
Shutdown Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS 
              DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

    There are appropriated for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, during any period of a lapse 
in discretionary appropriations with respect to the Small Business 
Administration during such fiscal year beginning on or after the date 
of the enactment of this section, for any 30-day period of such lapse 
(and on a pro-rated basis if such lapse is less than 30 days) to pay 
for the salaries and expenses necessary to continue servicing any loans 
made under--
            (1) $500,000 for loans made under subsection (m) of section 
        7 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(m));
            (2) $2,916,666,667 for loans made under subsection (a) of 
        section 7 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a));
            (3) $1,250,000,000 for loans made under title V of the 
        Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 695 et seq.); 
        and
            (4) $13,775,000 for administrative expenses to carry out 
        the loan program under subsection (m) of section 7 of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(m)).
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