SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Patriotic Employer 
Protection Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LOAN ASSISTANCE AND DEFERRAL 
ELIGIBILITY TO RESERVISTS BEYOND PERI-
ODS OF MILITARY CONFLICT. 
(a) SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS.—Section 
7 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (b)(3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking clause (ii); 
(ii) by redesignating clause (i) as 
clause (ii); 
(iii) by inserting before clause (ii), as 
so redesignated, the following: 
‘‘(i) the term ‘active service’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 101(d)(3) of title 
10, United States Code;’’; and 
(iv) in clause (ii), as so redesignated, 
by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘being ordered to active military duty during a 
period of military conflict’’ and inserting ‘‘being 
ordered to perform active service for a period of 
more than 30 consecutive days’’;
(C) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘ac-
tive duty’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘active service’’; and 
(D) in subparagraph (G)(ii)(II), by strik-
ing ‘‘active duty’’ and inserting ‘‘active service’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (n)— 
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘ACTIVE DUTY’’ and inserting ‘‘ACTIVE SERV-
ICE’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (C); 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(A) and (B) as subparagraphs (B) and 
(C), respectively; 
(iii) by inserting before subparagraph 
(B), as so redesignated, the following: 
‘‘(A) ACTIVE SERVICE.—The term ‘active 
service’ has the meaning given that term in sec-
tion 101(d)(3) of title 10, United States 
Code.’’; 
(iv) in subparagraph (B), as so redes-
ignated, by striking ‘‘ordered to active duty 
during a period of military conflict’’ and 
inserting ‘‘ordered to perform active serv-
ice for a period of more than 30 consecu-
tive days’’; and 
(v) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
‘‘active duty’’ each place it appears and in-
serting ‘‘active service’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘ac-
tive duty’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘active service’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a)(1) shall apply to an economic injury suffered 
or likely to be suffered as the result of an essential em-
ployee being ordered to perform active service (as defined 
in section 101(d)(3) of title 10, United States Code) for 
a period of more than 30 consecutive days who is dis-
charged or released from such active service on or after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) SEMIANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, and semiannually 
thereafter, the President shall submit to the Committee 
on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee 
on Small Business and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives a report on the number 
of loans made under the Military Reservist Economic In-
jury Disaster Loan program and the dollar volume of
those loans. The report shall contain the subsidy rate of 
the disaster loan program as authorized under section 7(b) 
of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)) with the 
loans made under the Military Reservist Economic Injury 
Disaster Loan program and without those loans included. 
(d) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— 
Section 8(l) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(l)) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Administration’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administration’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘(as defined in section 
7(n)(1))’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION OF PERIOD OF MILITARY CON-
FLICT.—In this subsection, the term ‘period of mili-
tary conflict’ means— 
‘‘(A) a period of war declared by the Con-
gress; 
‘‘(B) a period of national emergency de-
clared by the Congress or by the President; or 
‘‘(C) a period of a contingency operation, 
as defined in section 101(a) of title 10, United 
States Code.’’.
SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 13, 
2019. 
Attest: 
Clerk.