# H.R. 736 (119th): Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 2025

Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 2025 This bill extends the deadline for certain companies that are required to file beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Specifically, the bill requires companies formed or registered before January 1, 2024, to submit this information to FinCEN by January 1, 2026, instead of by January 1, 2025, as required under current regulations.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: anti_money_laundering. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: compliance_deadline. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: financial_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulation_burden. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: small_business. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 37: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a timing adjustment to an existing reporting regime. It offers modest relief to small businesses from compliance burden while leaving the underlying transparency requirement in place. The dispute is ordinary regulatory and prudential, with no direct advancement or restraint of a named moral harm.
Theological note: The issue touches stewardship of lawful commerce and the proportion of regulatory burden on small enterprises, weighed against the general equity of transparency rules that help curb concealed financial abuse. Scripture's call to honest dealing and to care for the burdens of ordinary workers and small owners makes this a matter for prudent judgment rather than a clear moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 37: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 408 · Nay 0 · Other 25.

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