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H.R. 6431 — New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficiency Act

10%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficien… — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 59% puts enactment at 10%.

passed the House
10%
downstream: Senate + President
=
10%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 70 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 49–96 (quartiles 54–89). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 59% (simple-majority P = 95%).

By floor procedure

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

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference19% 72 [48–96] 95%
passage81% 70 [49–96] 95%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mike Carey (R). Latest action (2026-04-28): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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).