House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Common Repository for Small Businesses Act
Official title: To require the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to establish a repository of supplier information to facilitate the qualification of suppliers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Derek Schmidt R-KSWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5977.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHMIDT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):Clause 14 of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5977, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5977
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- November 25, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
76e65f4a1011d05932f61a117b36b7db9f93edbd4d66874c8f654ff6453f8268
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of November 25, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Derek Schmidt.
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- H.R. 8065 (119th) Restoring Executive Branch Authorities to Oversee Offices of the United States Attorneys Act of 2026
- H.R. 9298 (119th) Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- H.R. 5364 (119th) STOP FRAUD in Medicaid Act
- H.R. 3825 (119th) Kelsey Smith Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.