# H.R. 818 (119th): Small Business Procurement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025 or the SPUR Act

Small Business Procurement and Utilization Reform Act of 2025 or the SPUR Act This bill requires federal agencies to include on their annual scorecard for small business contracting the number of small businesses that receive a prime contract for the first time and are owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small business concerns, small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, or small business concerns owned and controlled by women.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: procedural. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procurement. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: small_business. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: transparency_reporting. 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 45: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a federal procurement reporting measure. It promotes transparency about small business participation, which is an ordinary prudential good. It also uses group-based ownership categories tied to contracting outcomes, which reasonable people dispute on fairness grounds. It does not directly advance a named moral evil or directly restrain one, so a mixed classification fits better than good or evil.
Theological note: Scripture commends honest weights, fair dealing, and care for the poor and the stranger, and it also requires equal justice without partiality. Federal procurement reporting touches stewardship of public funds and fairness in opportunity. Because this bill mainly requires disclosure of contracting data, its moral relevance is limited and prudential, though its use of group-based categories raises a fairness question that is appropriately debated in ordinary policy terms.

## Recorded votes

Roll 45: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 384 · Nay 25 · Other 23.

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