# Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025 - Plain Language Summary

## What This Bill Does

This bill makes updates to the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Advocacy to clarify and expand its responsibilities. The Office of Advocacy is the part of the SBA that represents small business interests and concerns to the government. The bill makes both technical corrections (fixing typos and grammatical errors) and substantive changes to what this office is supposed to do.

## Key Changes

The bill makes three main updates:

1. **Expands focus to international trade**: It adds "and the international economy" to the office's responsibilities, meaning the office should now consider how international economic issues affect small businesses, not just domestic economic matters.

2. **New international representation duty**: It gives the Office of Advocacy a new responsibility to represent small business views and interests to foreign governments and international organizations. This is intended to help small businesses participate in international trade and regulatory discussions that could affect them.

3. **Corrects technical errors**: The bill fixes minor spelling and grammatical mistakes in existing law (changing "serviced-disabled" to "service-disabled" and "complete" to "compete").

## Who Is Affected

Small business owners and entrepreneurs would benefit from these changes, as the SBA's Office of Advocacy would have a clearer mandate and expanded authority to advocate for their interests on the international stage. This could help small businesses navigate international trade agreements and regulations more effectively.

Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025

Williams, Roger

Small Business Advocacy Improvements Act of 2025This 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.