Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act Regulations Statutory Updates

What it does

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is amending the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations in 13 CFR part 142 to reflect changes made to the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986 by the Administrative False Claims Act of 2023. These changes, among other things, revise the name of the administrative action from "Program Fraud Civil Remedies" to "Administrative False Claims" and increase the threshold for a claim from $150,000 to $1,000,000. The Administrative False Claims Act mandates that the Agency issue regulations to update part 142 and this direct final rule conforms the regulations to the Administrative False Claims Act by adopting the new statutory requirements without change.

The Small Business Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

13 CFR 142

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Small Business Administration has published 7 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 3 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3245-AI29 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective May 4, 2026, without further action, unless significant adverse comment is received by April 20, 2026. If significant adverse comment is received, SBA will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal Register.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket SBA-2026-0067 on Regulations.gov
• Title 13 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register