HeyJaredRobert K. Tompkins
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SBA Publishes Final Rule Eliminating Long-Standing Notice And Comment Procedures (opens the original)
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) published a final rule on August 31, 2026, rescinding its policy to utilize notice and comment procedures for certain rulemaking actions. For more than five decades, the SBA has voluntarily engaged in public notice and comment procedures whenever it made changes to SBA regulations involving loan, grant, benefit and contract programs, even though federal law does not require it to do so. That policy has officially come to an end with the issuance of SB
SBA Publishes Final Rule Removing Presumption Of Social Disadvantage For 8(a) Program (opens the original)
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on August 11, 2026, published its final rule removing from the 8(a) Business Development Program the "presumption" of social disadvantage for certain enumerated groups. The final rule is substantially the same as the proposed rule discussed in a previous Holland & Knight blog post, with a few key differences – including expressly expanding the new "social disadvantage" test to include prejudice or bias based on sex and disability. There are two notabl
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