S. 202 119th Congress Senate

Helping Small Businesses THRIVE Act

Official title: A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program to allow small business concerns to purchase certain commodities futures, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 23, 2025 Introduced by: Jeanne Shaheen Democratic · New Hampshire See on congress.gov

Commerce

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Jan 23, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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What's happening now January 23, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 6

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)
NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30)
NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
for NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

Executive Office of the President (EOP)
6 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
6 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
6 filings
Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
6 filings
SENATE
6 filings
Small Business Administration (SBA)
6 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

Cosponsors 1

Cassidy, Bill

Louisiana · Jan 23, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 202: Helping Small Businesses THRIVE Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-202/

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"S. 202: Helping Small Businesses THRIVE Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-202/.

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S. 202, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-202/.

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