SJR79 Summary

• Designates May 4-10, 2025, as National Small Business Week, marking the 62nd anniversary of this national observance.

• Recognizes that Alabama has over 449,024 small businesses employing 46.7 percent of the state's private sector workforce and accounting for 99.4 percent of all Alabama businesses.

• Notes that small businesses in Alabama have grown employment by nearly 10 percent over the last 25 years and exported goods worth over $4.4 billion.

• Encourages Alabama residents to celebrate small business entrepreneurship, support economic recovery, recognize charitable contributions by small businesses, and increase access to minority-owned and underserved firms.

• Urges citizens to recognize the critical contributions of Alabama's small businesses, entrepreneurs, and owners to state and national economic growth.