Proposed Rule Amending SBA’s Monetary Size Standards

On Friday, August 22, 2025, SBA published in the Federal Register a Proposed Rule, Small Business Size Standards: Monetary-Based Industry Size Standards [RIN 3245-AI12]. The proposal would “increase [SBA’s] monetary based small business size definitions (commonly referred to as ‘‘size standards’’) for 263 industries (259 receipts based and four assets based), .. retain receipts-based size standards for 237 industries and 12 sub-industries (‘‘exceptions’’) and remove one exception“. SBA has indicated that its proposed changes are based on the agency’s recently revised ‘‘Size Standards Methodology’’.  

Interested parties must provide comments to SBA on the regulatory proposal on or before October 21, 2025, following the procedures provided in the Proposed Rule.