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<dc:title>119 HR 2931 EH: Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session>
<legis-num display="yes">H. R. 2931</legis-num>
<current-chamber display="no">IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber>
<legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type>
<official-title display="yes">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.</official-title>
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<section id="HF99927E5D9A14046A3ABEAF27C61CBA3" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025</short-title></quote>. </text></section> <section id="H31A2F32023C6468EAE81B4B40E808694"><enum>2.</enum><header>Relocation of certain offices in sanctuary jurisdictions</header> <subsection id="HC5F927312E6045B198E36F650413A029"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall relocate each covered office located in a sanctuary jurisdiction in accordance with this section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HAA41DEEA367E461294EF541B9084F333"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Determination required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to a covered office only if, prior to ordering the relocation of such covered office under such subsection, the Administrator makes a determination that such covered office is located in a sanctuary jurisdiction and makes such determination publicly available.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H50C235AA164B4E0DA415E5A5BF99EAF4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Relocation requirement</header><text>When relocating a covered office under this section, the Administrator shall relocate such covered office to a location that is not in a sanctuary jurisdiction.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H4F5D4E6D02E24661869F9323A8D3FF21"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Relocation deadline</header>
<paragraph id="H3561EA79D1634AB7AB7CAB08225D58BB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>Not later 120 days after the Administrator makes publicly available a determination under subsection (b) with respect to a covered office, the Administrator shall relocate such covered office in accordance with subsection (c).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA6E8E7CB7C9245579B2B5BB2D6F85E48"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Noncompliance</header> <subparagraph id="H0AA8429A2F0446A9AF8E7895B3BECF60"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a covered office described in paragraph (1) is not relocated in accordance with subsection (c) prior to the expiration of the 120-day period applicable to such relocation under such paragraph—</text>
<clause id="H067DB63D5DBF4E86AED682C418E31198"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not later 5 days after the expiration of such 120-day period, the head of such covered office shall submit to the Administrator a written explanation of why such covered office was not relocated prior to expiration of such 120-day period; and</text></clause> <clause id="H254086FA5493418CB0767B11BADFC0D1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>during the period beginning on the day after expiration of such 120-day period and ending on the date on which such covered office is relocated to a location that is not in a sanctuary jurisdiction—</text>
<subclause id="HBB4DA9BE849E45EC9BAA37361CC3EFA8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>such covered office shall cease operations; and</text></subclause> <subclause id="H45DCF92FDFD24D64BA15E4F43FDB3F45"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each employee of the Administration whose duty station was at such covered office shall be assigned to a duty station at another covered office that is located in the same State and not in a sanctuary jurisdiction or, if no other covered office is located in the same State and not in a sanctuary jurisdiction, any other covered office that is not located in a sanctuary jurisdiction.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF9056F1C53134C9D8036A622439DCDA9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Removal</header><text>The Administrator shall immediately remove the head of a covered office required to submit a written explanation under subparagraph (A)(i) if—</text> <clause id="HC679AFB41946485D85C8D27DE48ED118"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such head does not submit such a written explanation in accordance with such subparagraph; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H957B655737724C10B51ED45E7020C32B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Administrator determines that the reasons provided in the written explanation submitted by such head under such subparagraph for the relocation of such covered office not being completed prior to the expiration of the 120-day period described in paragraph (1) with respect to such covered office are insufficient.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H99D52CFE1236413A9CC51E02C62DCD5C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>New office limitation</header><text>The Administrator may not establish a covered office in sanctuary jurisdiction.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA6F64D1B981246A281CAFDF4455CD824"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H2117AFF3982B4984887557596BE4DCE2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>The term <term>Administration</term> means the Small Business Administration.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1039B3669D514A389A29E0426F1222E4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Administrator</header><text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Administration.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD4A63F462AC9427094BA9B2702DDDAFD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Covered office</header><text>The term <term>covered office</term> means a regional, district, or local office the Administration, other than the headquarters of the Administration, or any other component of the Administration fully funded by funds appropriated by Congress.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC81C1DDF5CD347038EE2CA35F3C3B834"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Sanctuary jurisdiction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>sanctuary jurisdiction</quote> means a political subdivision of a State that has in effect a statute, ordinance, policy, or practice that prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from—</text> <subparagraph id="H8DA332D546BF48339FE848A96744C5E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging with any Federal, State, or local government entity information regarding the citizenship or immigration status (lawful or unlawful) of any individual; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA863333BA93748EBA944F455E6AD5C1B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">complying with a request lawfully made by the Department of Homeland Security under section 236 or 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226 and 1357) to comply with a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> </legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20250605" chamber="House">Passed the House of Representatives June 5, 2025.</attestation-date><attestor display="no">Kevin F. McCumber,</attestor><role>Clerk.</role></attestation-group></attestation> <endorsement display="yes"></endorsement> </bill> 

