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(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on July 23, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Small Business Administration (SBA) from collecting a guarantee fee in connection with a loan made under the SBA Express Program to a veteran or the spouse of a veteran on or after October 1, 2015, except during any upcoming fiscal year for which the President's budget, submitted to Congress, includes a cost for the Program that is above zero.
(Sec. 3) Requires the SBA to assess for Congress the level of outreach to and consultation with female veterans regarding access to capital by women's business centers and Veterans Business Outreach Centers.
(Sec. 4) Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 to increase the limit from $18.75 billion to $23.5 billion for FY2015 commitments for general business loans for a combination of amortizing term loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided by revolving loans.
Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the SBA, starting October 1, 2015, from guaranteeing a loan if:
the lender determines that the borrower is unable to obtain credit elsewhere solely because the lender's liquidity depends upon the guaranteed portion of the loan being sold on the secondary market, or
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2499 as public Law on Jul 28, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jul 13, 2015
Veterans Entrepeneurship Act of 2015
Passed · Two-thirds required
410 Yea 1 Nay 22 not voting
Crossed both parties 1 of 411 voting members broke with their own party: 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2499 and vote against it. 6 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2499 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
32 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.