To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate certain offices of the Small Business Administration in sanctuary jurisdictions, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025 requires the SBA Administrator to relocate each covered SBA regional, district, or local office located in a sanctuary jurisdiction. Before ordering relocation, the Administrator must publicly determine that the office is in a sanctuary jurisdiction. The relocated office must move to a location that is not in a sanctuary jurisdiction, and the House-passed text requires relocation within 120 days after the public determination. If the office is not moved on time, the office head must submit a written explanation within five days, the office must cease operations until relocation, and employees must be reassigned to another covered office in the same state outside a sanctuary jurisdiction or another non-sanctuary covered office. The Administrator must immediately remove an office head who fails to submit an explanation or gives reasons the Administrator finds insufficient. The bill also bars SBA from establishing covered offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
Who Benefits and How
Non-sanctuary jurisdictions, local governments seeking SBA offices, small businesses in receiving communities, supporters of immigration detainer cooperation, SBA offices outside sanctuary jurisdictions, and policymakers opposing sanctuary policies benefit from office relocations, public determinations, employee reassignment rules, and a permanent ban on new covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Small businesses in sanctuary jurisdictions, covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions, SBA employees assigned to those offices, SBA office heads, the SBA Administrator, SBA relocation staff, sanctuary city governments, sanctuary county governments, landlords leasing SBA office space, and SBA service users must absorb office closures, relocation costs, service disruption, employee reassignment, written-explanation deadlines, possible office-head removal, and loss of local SBA access.
Key Provisions
- Requires public SBA determinations before relocating covered offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
- Requires covered offices in sanctuary jurisdictions to relocate to non-sanctuary locations within 120 days.
- Requires late offices to cease operations and reassign employees until relocation is complete.
- Requires office heads to submit written explanations for missed relocation deadlines.
- Authorizes immediate removal of office heads who fail to explain delays or provide insufficient reasons.
- Prohibits SBA from establishing covered offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires SBA to relocate regional, district, and local offices out of sanctuary jurisdictions after a public determination, cease operations if relocation is late, reassign employees, remove office heads who fail to justify delays, and bar new covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
Key Policy Areas
Small Business, Immigration, Federal Administration
Primary Purpose
Requires SBA to relocate regional, district, and local offices out of sanctuary jurisdictions after a public determination, cease operations if relocation is late, reassign employees, remove office heads who fail to justify delays, and bar new covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Non-sanctuary jurisdictions
- Local governments seeking SBA offices
- Small businesses in receiving communities
- Supporters of immigration detainer cooperation
- SBA offices outside sanctuary jurisdictions
- Policymakers opposing sanctuary policies
Identified Costs
- Small businesses in sanctuary jurisdictions
- Covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions
- SBA employees assigned to those offices
- SBA office heads
- SBA Administrator
- SBA relocation staff
- Sanctuary city governments
- Sanctuary county governments
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Additional sponsor: Mr. LaLota
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the …
Mr. Finstad introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Covered SBA offices in sanctuary jurisdictions, SBA employees assigned to sanctuary offices, SBA office heads in sanctuary jurisdictions
Small businesses in receiving communities, Small businesses in sanctuary jurisdictions
Positive-direction: Small businesses in receiving communities
Negative-direction: Small businesses in sanctuary jurisdictions
On Passage
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act
On Motion to Recommit
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "administrator"
- → Administrator of the Small Business Administration
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