DLARA

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HR4238 · U.S. Congress · Floor

Introduced 2025-06-27. Latest action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 448.

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Summary (plain-language)

Disaster Loan Accountability and Reform Act or the DLARA This bill modifies the Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loan program to require additional oversight and reports regarding the program. First, the bill requires the SBA to report monthly on the operation of the disaster loan program. (Currently, the SBA must report only during the applicable period for a major disaster.) The report must estimate the date on which available funding for such loans will reach 10% of the most recent appropriation and the date on which the funds will be depleted. If a report is not submitted by the required date, no funds may be obligated for official travel by the SBA Administrator until the report is submitted. Second, the President's annual budget must include separate statements regarding the appropriations request for SBA disaster loans and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL), including explanations for any difference between the amount requested and the 10-year average cost for such loans. Third, the SBA must notify Congress when the unobligated balance of amounts available for disaster loans is less than 10% of the 10-year average annual cost provided in the most recent presidential budget. Finally, the bill requires additional oversight of the disaster loan program, including Government Accountability Office reports on the disbursement of disaster loans and the cost of specified SBA rules that modified the loan program; and an SBA report on its actions to improve forecasting, data quality, and budget assumptions for the cost of disaster loans.

Text versions

Introduced in House — 2025-06-27 — XML
Reported in House — 2026-06-11 — XML
Engrossed in House — 2026-06-23 — XML
Placed on Calendar Senate — 2026-06-24 — XML

What analysts say

CBO cost estimates

H.R. 4238, Disaster Loan Accountability and Reform Act or DLARA — 2026-06-16
As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on June 11, 2026

Full estimate published at cbo.gov; it will appear here once an archived or committee-report copy is available.

Committee reports

H. Rept. 119-695

What politicians say

No linked claims or utterances yet — no one on record has cited this measure to justify a public argument.

Action History

Date	Action
2026-06-24	Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 448.
2026-06-23	Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2026-06-23	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4143-4145)
2026-06-23	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4238.
2026-06-23	Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
2026-06-23	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4143-4144)
2026-06-23	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2026-06-11	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-695, Part I.
2026-06-11	Committee on the Budget discharged.
2026-06-11	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 603.
2026-05-20	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2026-05-20	Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 0.
2025-06-27	Introduced in House
2025-06-27	Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.