On September 5, Small Business Majority signed onto a letter with 50 other organizations calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign SB 81, which would safeguard access to healthcare facilities for all Californians by protecting people’s immigration status and place of birth information from being disclosed and prohibiting healthcare providers from granting access to nonpublic areas of healthcare facilities for immigration enforcement purposes.

Small Business Majority submitted a letter to the California Senate Appropriations Committee in support of SB 81, which revises the definition of “medical information” to include immigration status under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA).   

Small Business Majority sent a letter to the California Senate Appropriations Committee in supprot of Senate Bill 635, the Street Vendor Business Protection Act, which prohibits permitters from inquiring about a person’s immigration or citizenship status and prevents fingerprinting or the disclosure of past criminal history for permitting purposes.

Small Business Majority is pleased to support AB 4, which will remove immigration status as a barrier to eligibility to access healthcare coverage within Covered California. This will ensure more small business employees and entrepreneurs are able to access the health coverage they need to fully participate in our state’s economy. 

On April 1, Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer testified before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business during a hearing titled “The Golden Age: Unleashing Main Street Through Deregulation.” In his testimony, John emphasized that small businesses nationwide are more concerned about burdensome tariffs, federal funding freezes, cuts to essential federal agencies supporting small businesses, and mass deportations than the effects of federal regulations.

Today, John Arensmeyer testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship at a hearing, "The Small Business Workforce Challenge: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions." More than two years into the pandemic, small businesses are slowly rebuilding but need a vibrant stable workforce to fully recover. Entrepreneurs, especially those in under-resourced communities, need an array of support to address labor shortages and ensure employees are able to come back to the workforce. Mr.