{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-818","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 818","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Small Business Procurement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new small business entrants in the scorecard program, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new small business entrants in the scorecard program, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to new small business entrants in the scorecard program, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"SPUR Act"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Small Business Procurement and 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Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.","date":"2025-02-25"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-01-28","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Small Business Procurement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025 or the SPUR Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires federal agencies to include on their annual scorecard for small business contracting the number of small businesses that receive a prime contract for the first time and are owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, or small business concerns owned and controlled by women."}],"words":76},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Small Business Act to add a count of new small business entrants awarded federal prime contracts to the measures in the small business contracting scorecard program.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 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the new measure to include a comparison to the number awarded prime contracts during the prior fiscal year, if available.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text/eh#H2ED095D8B81340AD876C2E222DE27985"}},{"text":"Defines a new small business entrant as a small business concern that has been awarded a prime contract by a Federal agency and has not previously been awarded a prime contract by any Federal agency.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text/eh#H2ED095D8B81340AD876C2E222DE27985"}},{"text":"Defines a scorecard as a summary using a rating system to evaluate a Federal agency's efforts to meet goals under section 15(g)(1)(B), which includes the paragraph (2) measures and assigns a score to each agency evaluated.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text/eh#H2ED095D8B81340AD876C2E222DE27985"}},{"text":"States that no additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the Act or its amendments.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text/eh#H010FE73FB18345809890F9B179C41315"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-02-24","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/818/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-818.png","v":"e1c94112d985","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 818, 119th Congress: Small Business Procurement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025. House: 384 Yea, 25 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 24 Feb 2025."}}