# H.R. 832 (119th): Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025

Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025 This bill expands the primary functions and additional duties of the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to include (1) examining the role of small businesses in the international economy, and (2) representing the views and interests of small businesses before foreign governments and international entities to contribute to regulatory and trade initiatives that may affect small businesses.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: administrative_mandate. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: economic_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: small_business. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: trade_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 44: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a prudential administrative measure. It supports the representation of small business interests in trade and regulatory matters, which is an ordinary economic good, but it does not directly restrain evil or defend justice in a way that would make it clearly good, and it raises no direct moral harm that would make it evil. Its merits turn on prudential questions about governance and the office's role.
Theological note: The bill concerns the ordinary stewardship of economic life, including fair treatment of small enterprises and honest participation in trade. Scripture supports diligent labor, fair dealing, and just weights in commerce, but this measure is an administrative expansion of an advocacy office and does not itself address a named moral harm or a direct moral good.

## Recorded votes

Roll 44: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 396 · Nay 15 · Other 21.

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