Summary of Policies

There have been 7,430 bills proposed by the 114th Congress in 2015 thus far; out of these 7,430 bills, 100 are related to entrepreneurship or contain the word "entrepreneurship," making the percentage of entrepreneurship-related bills out of all proposed bills only 1.35%.

Out of the 100 entrepreneurship-related bills proposed by the 114th Congress, there were:

• 9 bills on veterans
• 34 bills on small business (with some overlap into other categories; 20 bills on small business alone)
• 1 bill on women
• 4 bills on tax relief
• 5 bills on disaster recovery
• 2 bills on establishing visas for alien entrepreneurs
• 1 bill on international cooperation and partnership in entrepreneurship
• 3 bills on "National Entrepreneurship Day/Week"
• 5 bills on exports
• 4 bills on startups/innovation
• 2 bills on patents
• 7 bills directed at specific industries, such as energy, telecommunications, and engineering
• 26 bills irrelevant to entrepreneurship
• -- ammending SBA
• -- have a greater than 50% chance of being enacted

Among these 100 bills:

• 26 were reported by Committee
• 3 passed the House
• 2 had changes agreed on by the House
• 68 were Introduced or not relevant
• 11 were resolutions
• 1 was successfully enacted (the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015)