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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 

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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. HUBZONE QUALIFIED DISASTER AREAS. 

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

8 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended— 


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

2 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

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

4 ‘‘or’’; 

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

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

7 and 

8 (iii) by adding at the end the fol9 lowing: 

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

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

12 the following: 

13 ‘‘(E) QUALIFIED DISASTER AREA.— 

14 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘quali15 fied disaster area’ means any census tract 

16 or nonmetropolitan county located in an 

17 area for which the President has declared 

18 a major disaster under section 401 of the 

19 Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 

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

21 5170) or located in an area in which a cat22 astrophic incident has occurred, if— 

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

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1 ginning 5 years before and ending 2 

2 years after the date on which— 

3 ‘‘(aa) the President declared 

4 the major disaster; or 

5 ‘‘(bb) the catastrophic inci6 dent occurred; or 

7 ‘‘(II) in the case of a nonmetro8 politan county, the nonmetropolitan 

9 county ceased to be a qualified non10 metropolitan county during the period 

11 beginning 5 years before and ending 2 

12 years after the date on which— 

13 ‘‘(aa) the President declared 

14 the major disaster; or 

15 ‘‘(bb) the catastrophic inci16 dent occurred. 

17 ‘‘(ii) TREATMENT.—A qualified dis18 aster area shall only be treated as a 

19 HUBZone— 

20 ‘‘(I) in the case of a major dis21 aster declared by the President, dur22 ing the 5-year period beginning on the 

23 date on which the President declared 

24 the major disaster for the area in 

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1 politan county, as applicable, is lo2 cated; and 

3 ‘‘(II) in the case of a cata4 strophic incident, during the 10-year 

5 period beginning on the date on which 

6 the catastrophic incident occurred in 

7 the area in which the census tract or 

8 nonmetropolitan county, as applicable, 

9 is located.’’; and 

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

11 by inserting ‘‘the Administrator of the Federal 

12 Emergency Management Agency,’’ after ‘‘the Sec13 retary of Labor,’’. 

14 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub15 section (a) shall apply to a major disaster declared by the 

16 President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford 

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

18 5170) or a catastrophic incident that occurs on or after 

19 the date of enactment of this Act. 

20 SEC. 3. BASE CLOSURE HUBZONES. 

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

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

23 amended— 

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

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


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

2 ‘‘(bb) pursuant to subpara3 graph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) 

4 of paragraph (3), that its prin5 cipal office is located in a 

6 HUBZone described in para7 graph (1)(E) (relating to base 

8 closure areas) (in this item re9 ferred to as the ‘base closure 

10 HUBZone’), and that not fewer 

11 than 35 percent of its employees 

12 reside in— 

13 ‘‘(AA) a HUBZone; 

14 ‘‘(BB) the census tract 

15 in which the base closure 

16 HUBZone is wholly con17 tained; 

18 ‘‘(CC) a census tract 

19 the boundaries of which 

20 intersect the boundaries of 

21 the base closure HUBZone; 

22 or 

23 ‘‘(DD) a census tract 

24 the boundaries of which are 

25 contiguous to a census tract 


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1 described in subitem (BB) 

2 or (CC); or’’. 

3 (b) PERIOD FOR BASE CLOSURE AREAS.— 

4 (1) AMENDMENTS.— 

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

6 title I of division K of the Consolidated Appro7 priations Act, 2005 (15 U.S.C. 632 note) is 

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

9 years’’. 

10 (B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

11 1698(b)(2) of National Defense Authorization 

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

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

14 ‘‘8 years’’. 

15 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.—The 

16 amendments made by paragraph (1) shall— 

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

18 this Act; and 

19 (B) apply to— 

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

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

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

23 day before the date of enactment of this 

24 Act, is treated as a HUBZone described in 


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

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

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

4 division K of the Consolidated Appro5 priations Act, 2005 (15 U.S.C. 632 

6 note); or 

7 (II) section 1698(b)(2) of Na8 tional Defense Authorization Act for 

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

10 note); and 

11 (ii) a base closure area relating to the 

12 closure of a military instillation under the 

13 authority described in clauses (i) through 

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

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

16 that occurs on or after the date of enact17 ment of this Act. 

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