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Did Bill Huizenga author and pass legislation to help small business owners?

Matches stated record claim. He sponsored a bill exempting brokers who help sell small businesses from SEC registration, and its text became law in a 2022 spending act he voted against.

Bill Huizenga

Writing and passing a small-business law

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What they say

His campaign says he authored and passed legislation to help the next generation of small business owners.

“authored and passed legislation to help the next generation of small business entrepenuers”

What the record shows ·

He sponsored H.R. 935, which exempts brokers who help sell privately held small businesses from SEC broker registration. It passed the House 419-0 on May 11, 2022. The same text, under his bill's name, became law as Title V of Division AA of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, signed December 29, 2022.

Limit: The campaign does not name the bill; this is the one of his that became law and fits the claim. He voted against the spending act that carried it (roll 549, December 23, 2022). Whether it helped new owners buy businesses is not something the record shows.

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  1. Meet Billhttps://huizengaformichigan.com/about/

    Huizenga for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source: biography and the claims about his record that the cards test. The page carries no date.

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  2. H.R. 935 (117th): Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2021https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/935

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Huizenga. Passed the House May 11, 2022, 419-0 (roll 158); referred to the Senate Banking Committee, where it stopped. He had introduced versions of it since 2013.

    official legislative record

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  3. House roll call 158 of 2022, H.R. 935https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022158

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended, May 11, 2022: 419-0. Huizenga: Yea.

    official legislative record

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  4. Public Law 117-328, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ328/html/PLAW-117publ328.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Enacted December 29, 2022. Division AA, Title V carries the name of his bill and, in section 501, the same new paragraph (13) of section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, in the same words as the House-passed H.R. 935.

    official legislative record

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  5. House roll call 549 of 2022, H.R. 2617https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022549

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Final House vote on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, December 23, 2022: 225-201. Huizenga: Nay.

    official legislative record

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