Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Reporting Act of 2025
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Would require the Small Business Administration to submit a report to Congress within 180 days on the challenges entrepreneurs with disabilities face in starting and operating businesses, along with any recommendations for legislative action to address those challenges.
What this bill would do
What it would do
The bill would direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to submit a report to Congress, within 180 days of enactment, on the challenges entrepreneurs with disabilities encounter when starting and operating a business. The report would be required to cover an assessment of their challenges and needs; the resources and support SBA already provides; outreach efforts by SBA district and regional offices, small business development centers, and women's business centers; any joint efforts with other federal agencies; deficiencies in existing resources; how entrepreneurs with disabilities access those resources; and recommendations for legislative action to address identified gaps.
The bill explicitly states that no additional funds are authorized to carry out its requirements. It does not itself create new programs, grants, or eligibility changes — its sole operative mandate is the production and submission of this report.
Key provisions
- 1Would require the SBA Administrator to submit a report to Congress within 180 days on challenges entrepreneurs with disabilities face starting and operating businesses.
- 2Would require the report to assess needs, describe existing SBA resources, document outreach efforts, identify resource deficiencies, and detail joint federal agency efforts supporting disabled entrepreneurs.
- 3Would require the report to include legislative recommendations to address identified challenges and needs of entrepreneurs with disabilities.
- 4Explicitly provides that no additional funds are authorized to carry out the Act's requirements.
Who would be affected
The Small Business Administration and its Administrator, who would bear the obligation to compile and submit the report. Entrepreneurs with disabilities across the country are the subject population whose challenges would be documented. Small business development centers and women's business centers would be referenced in the outreach assessment portion of the report.
Why it matters
If enacted, the report would give Congress and the public a structured assessment of where federal small-business resources fall short for entrepreneurs with disabilities, and a list of specific legislative recommendations to act on. Without the report, policymakers lack a consolidated federal picture of those gaps, which could otherwise delay or prevent targeted reforms.
What would change
Agencies directed to act
Effective dates
- Deadline for SBA Administrator to submit the report to Congress
Funding and costs
- No additional funds authorized
Carrying out the reporting requirements of the Act
Congressional Budget Office estimate
CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1621 would cost less than $500,000 over the 2025–2030 period, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
H.R. 1621 would require the Small Business Administration (SBA) to report to Congress on the challenges facing entrepreneurs with disabilities when starting and operating a business, including available resources and interagency programs. CBO estimates the cost of implementing the bill would be less than $500,000 over the 2025–2030 period, noting the SBA already completed a similar report in 2024. Any spending would be discretionary — meaning it depends on future appropriations — and would have no significant effect on mandatory (direct) spending or revenues. CBO identified no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates in the bill.
How implementation would work
The SBA Administrator would be solely responsible for compiling the report within 180 days of enactment, with no new budget authorized. The report would draw on data from SBA district and regional offices, small business development centers, and women's business centers. No rulemaking is required. Once submitted to Congress, the bill's requirements are fulfilled — there is no ongoing reporting cycle, enforcement mechanism, or grant program attached.
Legislative status & sources
Latest action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Official CRS summary
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This bill requires the Small Business Administration to assess and report on the challenges that entrepreneurs with a disability encounter in starting and operating a business, including any recommendations for legislative actions to address those challenges.
Legislative subjects
Commerce; Congressional oversight; Disability and paralysis; Disability assistance; Government studies and investigations; Small business
Committee report
H. Rept. 119-31