HR 6040
116th Congress
House
Commerce
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business
Travel and tourism
Small Business Relief From Communicable Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2020
Introduced: February 28, 2020
Introduced by:
Velázquez, Nydia M.
Democratic
· New York
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Became law
Feb 28, 2020
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Feb 28, 2020
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
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