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One Stop Shop for Small Business Licensing Act of 2025
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to continue to maintain a website regarding small business permitting and licensing requirements, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to maintain and keep publicly available a website that provides information about small business permitting and licensing requirements. The bill specifically identifies the current website at sba.gov/business-guide/launch-your-business/apply-licenses-permits and requires that this website, or any successor website with substantially similar information, remain publicly accessible. The SBA may update the information on the website to reflect changes in licensing and permitting requirements.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] (D-NV)
2 cosponsors
Actions (2)
- May 15, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. · senate
- May 15, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 15, 2025
Ms. Rosen (for herself, Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Justice) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to continue to maintain a website regarding small business permitting and licensing requirements, 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 “One Stop Shop for Small Business Licensing Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. CONTINUED AVAILABILITY OF SBA WEBSITE FOR BUSINESS PERMITTING AND LICENSING REQUIREMENTS.
(a) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Administrator.—The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
(2) Covered website.—The term “covered website”—
(A) means the website found at https://www.sba.gov/ business-guide/launch-your-business/apply-licenses- permits, as of May 14, 2025; and
(B) includes any successor website to the website described in subparagraph (A) that—
(i) has a different uniform resource locator than the website described in subparagraph (A); and
(ii) makes available information that is substantially similar to the information made available through the website described in subparagraph (A).
(b) Public Availability of Website.—On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall ensure that the covered website, and all of the information made available through the covered website (as that information may be updated by the Administrator given applicable changes with respect to the requirements that the covered website addresses), is publicly available. <all>
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