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H.R. 421 — Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act — would clear the House (93%) but only 1% to ever get the vote.

1%
reaches a floor vote
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99%
passes if voted (stage model)
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10%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 93% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 1% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 287 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 204–412 (quartiles 214–377). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the House would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
passage38% 255 [190–382] 88%
suspension62% 307 [209–414] 96%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ben Cline (R). Latest action (2025-06-10): Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 12.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).