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S. 4532 119th Congress Senate

Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act

Official title: A bill to include smoke in the definition of disaster in the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 14, 2026 Introduced by: Catherine Cortez Masto Democratic · Nevada See on congress.gov
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May 14, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
May 14, 2026
Introduced in Senate
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act

This bill includes smoke within the definition of a disaster for the purpose of providing economic injury disaster loans to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, and most private nonprofit organizations.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4532: Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4532/
MLA
"S. 4532: Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4532/.
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S. 4532, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4532/.
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[S. 4532: Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4532/)
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