Summary of Policies

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There have been 7,430 bills proposed by the 114th Congress in 2015 thus far; out of these 7,430 bills, 103 are related to entrepreneurship or contain the word "entrepreneurship," making the percentage of entrepreneurship-related bills out of all proposed bills only 1.386%.

Out of the 103 entrepreneurship-related bills proposed by the 114th Congress, there were:

  • 9 bills on veterans
  • 34 bills on small business (with some overlap into other categories; 20 bills on small business alone)
  • 1 bill on women
  • 4 bills on tax relief
  • 5 bills on disaster recovery
  • 2 bills on establishing visas for alien entrepreneurs
  • 1 bill on international cooperation and partnership in entrepreneurship
  • 3 bills on "National Entrepreneurship Day/Week"
  • 5 bills on exports
  • 4 bills on startups/innovation
  • 2 bills on patents
  • 7 bills directed at specific industries, such as energy, telecommunications, and engineering
  • 26 bills irrelevant to entrepreneurship
  • 43 amend SBA


Among the 103 bills:

  • 26 were reported by Committee
  • 3 passed the House
  • 2 had changes agreed on by the House
  • 68 were Introduced or not relevant
  • 11 were resolutions
  • 1 was successfully enacted (the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015)