3.0.0 2691 2026-04-01T15:20:06Z 2026-04-01T15:20:06Z Senate S S 2025-09-03 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2691 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-09-03T15:21:47Z 2025-09-03 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2025-09-03 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000618 Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE] Pete Ricketts R NE N S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2025-09-03 True Agriculture and Food Agriculture and Food 2025-09-12T17:01:18Z 00 2025-09-03 Introduced in Senate 2026-04-01T15:17:32Z Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 and revises the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP). This Department of Agriculture program provides loans and grants to eligible microenterprise development organizations to (1) capitalize revolving loan funds that provide loans to qualified rural microenterprises (i.e., sole proprietorships located in rural areas or business entities with not more than 10 full-time employees located in a rural area), and (2) provide related training and technical assistance.

The bill increases the amount a rural microenterprise may borrow to up to $75,000 (from up to $50,000).

The bill also increases the maximum allowable federal cost share to 100% (from 75%). The bill further specifies that a RMAP project loan may not be used to cover more than 50% of any demolition, construction, or related costs of real estate improvements.

]]> Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Act of 2025 Display Title 45 Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Act of 2025 2025-09-06T07:38:22Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Act of 2025 2025-09-06T07:38:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to extend and enhance the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program, and for other purposes. 2025-09-06T07:33:18Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-09-03T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2691is/xml/BILLS-119s2691is.xml 2025-09-03 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.