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Supporting Trade and Rebuilding Opportunity for National Growth Act

To amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase the maximum loan amount for certain loans, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 26, 2025

Latest action (Jun 26, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Referred to
Small Business Committee
Policy area
Commerce
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary
  • Increases the maximum 7(a) loan amount under the Small Business Act from $3.75 million to $7.5 million
  • Increases the gross loan amount limit for 7(a) loans from $5 million to $10 million
  • Increases the maximum loan amounts for development company loans under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 from $5 million to $10 million

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
24 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Mark Alford’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $47,248
  • NEIGHBORS CONSTRUCTION $9,350
  • MAX MOTORS $8,850
  • RMJK ENTERPRISES INC $8,600
  • MCCARTHY AUTO $7,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mark Alford → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 26, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. · house
  2. Jun 26, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 4818 — Small Business Reform Act of 2010 · Introduced Mar 24, 2010 · Cong. 111 74%
  • HR 354 — Small Business Growth Act · Introduced Jan 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • S 1917 — Investing in All of America Act of 2025 · Introduced May 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 3557 — To amend the Small Business Act to waive the accrual of interest and payments for certain disaster loans for a year, and for other purposes. · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 1375 — To amend the Small Business Act with respect to the maximum additional loan amount for certain disaster loans, and for other purposes. · Introduced Feb 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 4929 — Expanding Opportunities for Main Street Act of 2010 · Introduced Mar 24, 2010 · Cong. 111 71%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 26, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 26, 2025

Mr. Alford (for himself and Mr. Wied) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

A BILL

To amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase the maximum loan amount for certain loans, 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 “Supporting Trade and Rebuilding Opportunity for National Growth Act” or the “STRONG Act”.

SEC. 2. MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT FOR A 7(A) LOAN.

Section 7(a)(3)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)(3)(A)) is amended by striking “$3,750,000 (or if the gross loan amount would exceed $5,000,000)” and inserting “$7,500,000 (or if the gross loan amount would exceed $10,000,000)”.

SEC. 3. MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT FOR A DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LOAN.

Section 502(2)(A) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 696(2)(A)) is amended—

(1) by striking “$5,000,000” each place it appears and inserting “$10,000,000”; and

(2) by striking “$5,500,000” each place it appears and inserting “$10,000,000”. <all>

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