To amend the Small Business Act to ensure small businesses affected by the onset of communicable diseases are eligible for disaster relief.
Small Business Relief From Communicable Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2020
This bill expands the definition of a disaster for which the Small Business Administration (SBA) may provide disaster loans to small business concerns to include communicable diseases for which the government issues a travel alert or travel warning, and it authorizes the SBA to make interest free disaster loans to small businesses affected by a disaster for which the government issues a public health emergency.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
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