pac.dog pac.dog / Bills

S 8291Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including MWBEs, to participate in state contracts

Congress · introduced 2025-05-30

Requires that public contracts be divided by size into large, medium, small and micro contracts for the purpose of increasing opportunities for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises, to participate in state contracts.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_SENATE_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS
  2. · senate REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS

Text versions

Connected on the graph

Inbound (1)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-05-30James Sanders Jr.sponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1James Sanders Jr. (, state_upper NY-10)sponsor05

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-05-30 · sponsored by James Sanders Jr. (sponsor) · sponsorship

pac.dog is a free, independent, non-partisan research tool. Every candidate, committee, bill, vote, member, and nonprofit on this site is mirrored from primary U.S. government sources (FEC, congress.gov, govinfo.gov, IRS) and each state's Secretary of State / election commission — no third-party data vendors, no paywall, no editorial intermediation. Citations to the originating source are on every detail page. Want to partner? Contact us.

Estimated value: $540/mo per user — but we made it free.