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Calendar No. 112 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1292 

To amend the Small Business Act to treat certain qualified disaster areas 

as HUBZones and to extend the period for HUBZone treatment for 

certain base closure areas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 12, 2015 

Mr. VITTER (for himself and Mr. KING) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 

JUNE 10, 2015 

Reported by Mr. VITTER, without amendment 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to treat certain qualified 

disaster areas as HUBZones and to extend the period 

for HUBZone treatment for certain base closure areas, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘HUBZone Revitaliza5 tion Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. HUBZONE QUALIFIED DISASTER AREAS. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Small Business Act (15 

3 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended— 

4 (1) in section 3(p) (15 U.S.C. 632(p))— 

5 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

6 (i) in subparagraph (D), by striking 

7 ‘‘or’’; 

8 (ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 

9 the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; 

10 and 

11 (iii) by adding at the end the fol12 lowing: 

13 ‘‘(F) qualified disaster areas.’’; and 

14 (B) in paragraph (4), by adding at the end 

15 the following: 

16 ‘‘(E) QUALIFIED DISASTER AREA.— 

17 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘quali18 fied disaster area’ means any census tract 

19 or nonmetropolitan county located in an 

20 area for which the President has declared 

21 a major disaster under section 401 of the 

22 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

23 Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 

24 5170) or located in an area in which a cat25 astrophic incident has occurred, if— 


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1 ‘‘(I) in the case of a census tract, 

2 the census tract ceased to be a quali3 fied census tract during the period be4 ginning 5 years before and ending 2 

5 years after the date on which— 

6 ‘‘(aa) the President declared 

7 the major disaster; or 

8 ‘‘(bb) the catastrophic inci9 dent occurred; or 

10 ‘‘(II) in the case of a nonmetro11 politan county, the nonmetropolitan 

12 county ceased to be a qualified non13 metropolitan county during the period 

14 beginning 5 years before and ending 2 

15 years after the date on which— 

16 ‘‘(aa) the President declared 

17 the major disaster; or 

18 ‘‘(bb) the catastrophic inci19 dent occurred. 

20 ‘‘(ii) TREATMENT.—A qualified dis21 aster area shall only be treated as a 

22 HUBZone— 

23 ‘‘(I) in the case of a major dis24 aster declared by the President, dur25 ing the 5-year period beginning on the 


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1 date on which the President declared 

2 the major disaster for the area in 

3 which the census tract or nonmetro4 politan county, as applicable, is lo5 cated; and 

6 ‘‘(II) in the case of a cata7 strophic incident, during the 10-year 

8 period beginning on the date on which 

9 the catastrophic incident occurred in 

10 the area in which the census tract or 

11 nonmetropolitan county, as applicable, 

12 is located.’’; and 

13 (2) in section 31(c)(3) (15 U.S.C. 657a(c)(3)), 

14 by inserting ‘‘the Administrator of the Federal 

15 Emergency Management Agency,’’ after ‘‘the Sec16 retary of Labor,’’. 

17 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub18 section (a) shall apply to a major disaster declared by the 

19 President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford 

20 Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 

21 5170) or a catastrophic incident that occurs on or after 

22 the date of enactment of this Act. 


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1 SEC. 3. BASE CLOSURE HUBZONES. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3(p)(5)(A)(i)(I) of the 

3 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(5)(A)(i)(I)) is 

4 amended— 

5 (1) in item (aa), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; 

6 (2) by redesignating item (bb) as item (cc); and 

7 (3) by inserting after item (aa) the following: 

8 ‘‘(bb) pursuant to subpara9 graph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) 

10 of paragraph (3), that its prin11 cipal office is located in a 

12 HUBZone described in para13 graph (1)(E) (relating to base 

14 closure areas) (in this item re15 ferred to as the ‘base closure 

16 HUBZone’), and that not fewer 

17 than 35 percent of its employees 

18 reside in— 

19 ‘‘(AA) a HUBZone; 

20 ‘‘(BB) the census tract 

21 in which the base closure 

22 HUBZone is wholly con23 tained; 

24 ‘‘(CC) a census tract 

25 the boundaries of which 

26 intersect the boundaries of 


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1 the base closure HUBZone; 

2 or 

3 ‘‘(DD) a census tract 

4 the boundaries of which are 

5 contiguous to a census tract 

6 described in subitem (BB) 

7 or (CC); or’’. 

8 (b) PERIOD FOR BASE CLOSURE AREAS.— 

9 (1) AMENDMENTS.— 

10 (A) IN GENERAL.—Section 152(a)(2) of 

11 title I of division K of the Consolidated Appro12 priations Act, 2005 (15 U.S.C. 632 note) is 

13 amended by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and inserting ‘‘8 

14 years’’. 

15 (B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

16 1698(b)(2) of National Defense Authorization 

17 Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (15 U.S.C. 632 note) 

18 is amended by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and inserting 

19 ‘‘8 years’’. 

20 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.—The 

21 amendments made by paragraph (1) shall— 

22 (A) take effect on the date of enactment of 

23 this Act; and 

24 (B) apply to— 


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1 (i) a base closure area (as defined in 

2 section 3(p)(4)(D) of the Small Business 

3 Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(4)(D))) that, on the 

4 day before the date of enactment of this 

5 Act, is treated as a HUBZone described in 

6 section 3(p)(1)(E) of the Small Business 

7 Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(1)(E)) under— 

8 (I) section 152(a)(2) of title I of 

9 division K of the Consolidated Appro10 priations Act, 2005 (15 U.S.C. 632 

11 note); or 

12 (II) section 1698(b)(2) of Na13 tional Defense Authorization Act for 

14 Fiscal Year 2013 (15 U.S.C. 632 

15 note); and 

16 (ii) a base closure area relating to the 

17 closure of a military instillation under the 

18 authority described in clauses (i) through 

19 (iv) of section 3(p)(4)(D) of the Small 

20 Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(4)(D)) 

21 that occurs on or after the date of enact22 ment of this Act. 


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Calendar No. 112 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1292 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to treat certain 

tain base closure areas, and for other purposes. tend the period for HUBZone treatment for cerqualified disaster areas as HUBZones and to exJUNE 10, 2015 

Reported without amendment 


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