Commonsense Legislating Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6039 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6039 To advance commonsense priorities. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 12, 2025 Mr. McGovern introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, Appropriations, Ethics, Education and Workforce, the Judiciary, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, House Administration, Science, Space, and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Homeland Security, Rules, and 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 _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To advance commonsense priorities. 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 ``Commonsense Legislating Act''. TITLE I SEC. 101. EXTENSION OF FAST PROGRAM. Section 34(i) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657d(i)) is amended by striking ``September 30, 2005'' and inserting ``September 30, 2030''. SEC. 102. APPLICATION ASSISTANCE TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION. (a) In General.--Section 9(mm)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(mm)(1)) is amended-- (1) in subparagraph (J), by striking ``and'' at the end; (2) in subparagraph (K), by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(L) providing small business concerns with assistance applying to the SBIR program or STTR program of the Federal