House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2014
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 6, 2013
- Committee actionNov 14, 2013
- Passed HouseJan 14, 2014 · 422–0
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 15, 2014 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2274.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2274, Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2013” on December 11, 2013. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on November 14, 2013”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 11, 2013 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44955
- CBO publication date
- December 11, 2013
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2274, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2274
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
39ffb57806ec4f8450856c407dd07fbdcc2ff5d40ab200602f2e816993f35eed
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-326 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Financial Services Committee on January 14, 2014.Source: Congress.gov, reported January 14, 2014 ↗
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- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/326
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2274, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2274
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
39ffb57806ec4f8450856c407dd07fbdcc2ff5d40ab200602f2e816993f35eed
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H3252):Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 (``The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States''), 3 (``To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes''), and 18 (``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof).Source: Congress.gov, record updated December 5, 2025 ↗
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- 652 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2274, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2274
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
39ffb57806ec4f8450856c407dd07fbdcc2ff5d40ab200602f2e816993f35eed
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
9 cosponsors — 7 Republicans, 2 Democrats
2 of 9 cosponsors (22%) are from the other party.
Stephen Fincher (R-TN), Joseph Heck (R-NV), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Frank Lucas (R-OK), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Bill Posey (R-FL), Dennis Ross (R-FL), David Schweikert (R-AZ).
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bill Huizenga.
- H.R. 3211 (113th) Mortgage Choice Act of 2013
- H.R. 4318 (113th) Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act
- H.R. 5018 (113th) Federal Reserve Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014
- H.R. 1135 (113th) Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act
- H.R. 1077 (113th) Consumer Mortgage Choice Act
- H.R. 493 (113th) Homeland Security Respect for Life Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.