H.R. 2931 · 119th Congress
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
Latest action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
June 9, 2025
Summary
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities ActThis bill requires the relocation of a regional, district, or local office of the Small Business Administration (SBA) if the SBA makes a public determination that the office is located in a sanctuary jurisdiction. The SBA must relocate that office, within 60 days of such determination, to a location that is not a sanctuary jurisdiction.Under the bill, a sanctuary jurisdiction is a state or political subdivision thereof that prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from (1) exchanging with another government entity information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of an individual; or (2) complying with specified requests by the Department of Homeland Security.Additionally, the SBA may not establish an office in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Source: Congressional Research Service via Congress.gov · as of Jul 11, 2026
How it has moved
- June 9, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- June 5, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- June 5, 2025On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 211 - 199 (Roll no. 153). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H2483)
- June 5, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 211 - 199 (Roll no. 153). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H2483)
- June 5, 2025On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 202 - 210 (Roll no. 152).
- June 5, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2492-2493)
- June 5, 2025POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 2931, the Chair put the question on motion to recommit and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Cisneros demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
- June 5, 2025The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- June 5, 2025Mr. Cisneros moved to recommit to the Committee on Small Business. (text: CR H2488)
- June 5, 2025The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.