Small Business Health Options Awareness Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5498 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5498

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to
 provide information to small business concerns on individual coverage
       health reimbursement arrangements, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2025

   Ms. Van Duyne (for herself, Ms. Tenney, and Mr. Hern of Oklahoma)
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
                             Small Business

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                                 A BILL

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to
 provide information to small business concerns on individual coverage
       health reimbursement arrangements, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Health Options
Awareness Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. OUTREACH TO SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS ON INDIVIDUAL COVERAGE
              HEALTH REIMBURSEMENT ARRANGEMENTS.

    (a) Dissemination.--The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration shall disseminate information developed by appropriate
Federal agencies on individual coverage health reimbursement
arrangements to small business concerns through--
            (1) small business development centers; and
            (2) district offices of the Administration.
    (b) Publication.--The Administrator shall include the information
described in subsection (a) in outreach and communications of the Small
Business Administration, including social media, press releases, and
publication on a website of the Administration.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate federal agency.--The term ``appropriate
        Federal agency'' means a Federal agency, as determined by the
        Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and
        includes the Department of the Treasury, the Department of
        Health and Human Services, and the Department of Labor.
            (2) Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement.--
        The term ``individual coverage health reimbursement
        arrangement'' has the meaning given by the rule entitled
        ``Health Reimbursement Arrangements and Other Account-Based
        Group Health Plans'' (84 Fed. Reg. 28888; June 20, 2019).
            (3) Small business act definitions.--The terms ``small
        business concern'' and ``small business development center''
        have the meanings given, respectively, under section 3 of the
        Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
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