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S. 1546: Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015

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S. 1546: Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-06-10 · Commerce · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-06-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015

Plain summary

Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015 This bill declares that it is the policy of this Act: that, should the statutory authority for the export loan programs administered by the Export-Import Bank of the United States lapse, the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall serve the Bank's small business clients under existing statutory authority of the Small Business Act; to create an SBA Export Credit Insurance Program similar to the Bank's; and to ensure that small business exporters are served by SBA programs. The bill also amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA to establish a program to provide insurance for the exports of small businesses, including insurance against nonpayment by international buyers.

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Official text

Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] · 1 cosponsors

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Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

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Statute
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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-s1546 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114