I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6053 
To amend the Small Business Act to establish a loan program to assist 
and provide incentives for manufacturers to reinvest in making products 
in the United States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 
Mr. ISRAEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to establish a loan pro-
gram to assist and provide incentives for manufacturers 
to reinvest in making products in the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bring the Jobs Home 
Loan Act of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. SMALL MANUFACTURER DOMESTIC PRODUCTION 
LOAN PROGRAM. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 47 as section 48; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 46 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 47. SMALL MANUFACTURER DOMESTIC PRODUCTION 
LOAN PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section, the Admin-
istrator shall establish a loan program to assist small busi-
ness concerns described in subsection (b) to begin pro-
ducing, in the United States, products that the concerns 
otherwise import. 
‘‘(b) LOAN AUTHORITY.—In carrying out the pro-
gram established under subsection (a), the Administrator 
may make a loan to a small business concern involved in 
manufacturing (as determined by the Administrator) to 
assist the concern to make facility and equipment changes 
necessary for the concern to begin producing, in the 
United States, a product that the concern is importing 
from a foreign country at the time the loan is made. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible for a loan under 
subsection (b), a small business concern shall submit to 
the Administrator an application at such time, in such 
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form, and containing such information as the Adminis-
trator may require. 
‘‘(d) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 2 years 
after a small business concern receives a loan under 
this section, the concern shall submit to the Admin-
istrator a report describing— 
‘‘(A) the facility and equipment changes 
made with loan funds; and 
‘‘(B) the progress made by the concern in 
producing, in the United States, a product that 
the concern was importing from a foreign coun-
try at the time the loan was made. 
‘‘(2) USE OF REPORTS.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Administrator may con-
sider the information submitted by a small business 
concern in a report under paragraph (1) in deter-
mining whether to provide to the concern— 
‘‘(A) an additional loan under this section; 
or 
‘‘(B) loan assistance under any other pro-
gram of the Administration. 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION.—The Administrator may not make 
a loan under this section if the cost of the loan (as deter-
mined by the Administrator) is greater than 5 percent of 
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the total amount made available to the Administrator for 
the cost of making loans under this section for the fiscal 
year in which the loan is made.’’. 
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