Small Business Investor Capital Access Act

The Small Business Investor Capital Access Act (S.3880) was introduced in the Senate on February 12, 2026, by Sen. Rounds (R-SD) with one cosponsor. The bill amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to raise the private fund adviser registration threshold from $150 million to $175 million in assets under management, and adds a mandatory five-year inflation adjustment tied to the CPI-U. The bill has no authorized funding, no direct tax change, and no sector-level revenue impact. It was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where it remains with no further action. A companion bill (H.R. 3673) exists in the House. The money trail is zero. The bill does not authorize or appropriate any funding whatsoever. It is purely a regulatory adjustment of an SEC registration threshold. Actual compliance costs would only affect a small number of private fund advisers just below the new threshold — entities that are not publicly traded and not among the tickers provided. Structural winners and losers are negligible for publicly traded asset managers. Blackstone ($BX) and KKR ($KKR) manage $1 trillion+ in AUM each — the $25M threshold shift is mathematically irrelevant to their operations or revenue. Cboe Global Markets ($CBOE) operates an exchange, not an advisory business, and is unaffected. The only potential beneficiares would be very small private fund advisers managing $150M-$175M, none of which are publicly traded. Real market data shows $BX at $121.26 (30-day change: +5.45%) and $KKR at $100.73 (30-day change: +8.9%) — both near the bottom of their 52-week ranges. Recent closes for $BX show a slide from $129.08 on April 17 to $121.26 on April 30, a 6% decline over 13 days. $KKR similarly dropped from $103.60 to $100.73 over the same period. These movements are attributable to broader market factors and company-specific dynamics, not to this procedural bill. Timeline: The bill requires passage through the Senate Banking Committee, full Senate, House Financial Services Committee, full House, and presidential signature. With one cosponsor and no committee markup scheduled, odds of enactment in the 119th Congress are low.