Small Business Relief Accessibility Act

To establish a program to increase small business awareness of, and participation in, Small Business Administration programs, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Relief Accessibility Act 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Administration The term Administration (2) Administrator The term Administrator (3) Community navigator services The term community navigator services (4) Community navigator The term community navigator 15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(A) (5) Eligible business The term eligible business 15 U.S.C. 632(n) 15 U.S.C. 632(q) 15 U.S.C. 637(a)(4)(A) (6) Private nonprofit organization The term private nonprofit organization section 501(c) (7) Resource partner The term resource partner (A) a small business development center (as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 (B) a women’s business center (as described in section 29 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 656 (C) a chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives (as defined in section 8(b)(1)(B) of the Act ( 15 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B) (8) Small business concern The term small business concern 25 U.S.C. 632 (9) State The term State (10) Unit of general local government The term unit of general local government 3. Community navigator pilot program (a) In general The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall establish a Community Navigator pilot program to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, private nonprofit organizations, resource partners, States, Tribes, and units of local government to ensure the delivery of free community navigator services to current or prospective owners of eligible businesses in order to improve access to assistance programs and resources made available because of the COVID–19 pandemic by Federal, State, Tribal, and local entities. (b) Appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Administrator for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended, for carrying out this section. 4. Outreach and education (a) Promotion The Administrator shall develop and implement a program to promote community navigator services to current or prospective owners of eligible businesses. (b) Call center The Administrator shall establish a telephone hotline to offer information about Federal programs to assist eligible businesses and offer referral services to resource partners, community navigators, potential lenders, and other persons that the Administrator determines appropriate for current or prospective owners of eligible businesses. (c) Outreach The Administrator shall— (1) conduct outreach and education, in the 10 most commonly spoken languages in the United States, to current or prospective owners of eligible businesses on community navigator services and other Federal programs to assist eligible businesses; (2) improve the website of the Administration to describe such community navigator services and other Federal programs; and (3) implement an education campaign by advertising in media targeted to current or prospective owners of eligible businesses. (d) Appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Administrator for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $75,000,000, to remain available until expended, for carrying out this section. (e) Sunset The authority of the Administrator to make grants under this Act shall terminate on December 31, 2025.

Summary: Small Business Relief Accessibility Act This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a Community Navigator pilot program for increasing awareness of and participation in SBA programs that are made available to small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).