SBA Information Notice 5000-865664
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SBA Information Notice, control no. 5000-865664, effective March 28, 2025, addressed to SBA employees, Certified Development Companies and Third Party Lenders. It announces that SBA is revising SBA Form 1244, SBA 504 Borrower Information Form, in response to Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, issued January 20, 2025, and quotes section (3)(e) of the order on agency forms. The notice says SBA replaced the term gender with sex in 3 instances on pages 2 and 5 of the form and removed Not Disclosed as a possible response.
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SBA Information Notice
TO: All SBA Employees and Certified CONTROL NO.: 5000-865664
Development Companies and Third Party Lenders
EFFECTIVE: March 28, 2025
SUBJECT: SBA Form 1244 Updates to Conform
with Executive Order 14168
The purpose of this Notice is to announce that SBA is revising SBA Form 1244, “SBA 504
Borrower Information Form” in response to Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women From
Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”, issued
January 20, 2025.
Per section (3)(e) of the EO, “Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms,
communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate
gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms,
communications or other messages. Agency forms that require an individual's sex shall list male
or female, and shall not request gender identity.”
SBA has revised SBA Form 1244 to replace the term “gender” with the term “sex” in 3 instances
on pages 2 and 5 of the form. SBA has also removed “Not Disclosed” as a possible response to
the “Sex” demographic information category on page 2, with the remaining options being
“Male” and “Female”. The disclosure of demographic information, including sex, on SBA Form
1244 remains voluntary.
In addition, under Purpose of the Loan on page 1 SBA consolidated the Debt refinancing with
expansion and Debt refinancing without expansion categories into one Debt refinancing with or
without expansion category, and added a category for “Other” as a selection option. SBA also
removed the signature block for Associate of the Applicant on page 4 since only an authorized
representative of the Applicant Business who represents all owners of the Applicant Business is
required to sign the form.
Lenders may download the revised SBA Form 1244 from SBA’s website. The revised form may
be used immediately; however, SBA will allow a 30-day grace period for Certified Development
Companies to begin using the revised form. The revised form will be dated February 2025 in the
lower left corner.
PAGE 1 of 2 EXPIRES: 3/1/26
SBA Form 1353.3 (4-93) MS Word Edition; previous editions obsolete
Must be accompanied by SBA Form 58
Federal Recycling Program Printed on Recycled Paper
Questions:
Questions concerning this Notice may be directed to the Lender Relations Specialist in the local
SBA Field Office.
Thomas Kimsey
Associate Administrator
Office of Capital Access
PAGE 2 of 2 EXPIRES: 3/1/26
SBA Form 1353.3 (4-93) MS Word Edition; previous editions obsolete
Must be accompanied by SBA Form 58
Federal Recycling Program Printed on Recycled Paper
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