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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2931
To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate
certain offices of the Small Business Administration in sanctuary juris-
dictions, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL17, 2025
Mr. F
INSTADintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Small Business
A BILL
To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Adminis-
tration to relocate certain offices of the Small Business
Administration in sanctuary jurisdictions, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Save SBA from Sanc-4
tuary Cities Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. RELOCATION OF CERTAIN OFFICES IN SANCTUARY 1
JURISDICTIONS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Administrator shall relocate 3
each covered office located in a sanctuary jurisdiction in 4
accordance with this section. 5
(b) D
ETERMINATION REQUIRED.—Subsection (a) 6
shall apply with respect to a covered office only if, prior 7
to ordering the relocation of such covered office under 8
such subsection, the Administrator makes a determination 9
that such covered office is located in a sanctuary jurisdic-10
tion and makes such determination publicly available. 11
(c) R
ELOCATIONREQUIREMENT.—When relocating a 12
covered office under this section, the Administrator shall 13
relocate such covered office to a location that— 14
(1) is not in a sanctuary jurisdiction; and 15
(2) if the State in which such covered office is 16
located prior to such relocation is not a sanctuary 17
jurisdiction, is in such State. 18
(d) S
USPENSION OFOPERATIONS.—During the pe-19
riod the Administrator is relocating a covered office under 20
this section that is located in a State that is a sanctuary 21
jurisdiction, such covered office shall cease the operations 22
of such office in such State. 23
(e) R
ELOCATIONDEADLINE.— 24
(1) D
EADLINE.—Not later 60 days after the 25
Administrator makes publicly available a determina-26
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tion under subsection (b) with respect to a covered 1
office, the Administrator shall relocate such covered 2
office in accordance with subsection (c). 3
(2) N
ONCOMPLIANCE.— 4
(A) I
N GENERAL.—If a covered office de-5
scribed in paragraph (1) is not relocated in ac-6
cordance with subsection (c) prior to the expira-7
tion of the 60-day period applicable to such re-8
location under such paragraph— 9
(i) not later 5 days after the expira-10
tion of such 60-day period, the head of 11
such covered office shall submit to the Ad-12
ministrator a written explanation of why 13
such covered office was not relocated prior 14
to expiration of such 60-day period; and 15
(ii) during the period beginning on the 16
day after expiration of such 60-day period 17
and ending on the date on which such cov-18
ered office is relocated to a location that is 19
not in a sanctuary jurisdiction— 20
(I) such covered office shall cease 21
operations; and 22
(II) each employee of the Admin-23
istration whose duty station was at 24
such covered office shall be assigned 25
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to a duty station at another covered 1
office that is located in the same 2
State and not in a sanctuary jurisdic-3
tion or, if no other covered office is lo-4
cated in the same State and not in a 5
sanctuary jurisdiction, any other cov-6
ered office that is not located in a 7
sanctuary jurisdiction. 8
(B) R
EMOVAL.—The Administrator shall 9
immediately remove the head of a covered office 10
required to submit a written explanation under 11
subparagraph (A)(i) if— 12
(i) such head does not submit such a 13
written explanation in accordance with 14
such subparagraph; or 15
(ii) the Administrator determines that 16
the reasons provided in the written expla-17
nation submitted by such head under such 18
subparagraph for the relocation of such 19
covered office not being completed prior to 20
the expiration of the 60-day period de-21
scribed in paragraph (1) with respect to 22
such covered office are insufficient. 23
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(f) NEWOFFICELIMITATION.—The Administrator 1
may not establish a covered office in sanctuary jurisdic-2
tion. 3
(g) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 4
(1) A
DMINISTRATION.—The term ‘‘Administra-5
tion’’ means the Small Business Administration. 6
(2) A
DMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-7
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Administra-8
tion. 9
(3) C
OVERED OFFICE.—The term ‘‘covered of-10
fice’’ means a regional, district, or local office the 11
Administration, other than the headquarters of the 12
Administration, or any other component of the Ad-13
ministration fully funded by funds appropriated by 14
Congress. 15
(4) S
ANCTUARY JURISDICTION .— 16
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided by 17
subparagraph (B), the term ‘‘sanctuary juris-18
diction’’ means any State or political subdivi-19
sion of a State that has in effect a statute, ordi-20
nance, policy, or practice that prohibits or re-21
stricts any government entity or official from— 22
(i) sending, receiving, maintaining, or 23
exchanging with any Federal, State, or 24
local government entity information re-25
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garding the citizenship or immigration sta-1
tus (lawful or unlawful) of any individual; 2
or 3
(ii) complying with a request lawfully 4
made by the Department of Homeland Se-5
curity under section 236 or 287 of the Im-6
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 7
1226 and 1357) to comply with a detainer 8
for, or notify about the release of, an indi-9
vidual. 10
(B) E
XCEPTION.—A State or political sub-11
division of a State shall not be deemed a sanc-12
tuary jurisdiction based solely on its having a 13
policy whereby its officials will not share infor-14
mation regarding, or comply with a request 15
made by the Department of Homeland Security 16
under section 236 or 287 of the Immigration 17
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226 and 1357) 18
to comply with a detainer regarding, an indi-19
vidual who comes forward as a victim or a wit-20
ness to a criminal offense. 21
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