ENTRÉE Act
Bill: H.R.4568 | Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine (R-MO)
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Entrepreneurs Need Timely Replenishment (for) Eating Establishments Act or the ENTRÉE Act
This bill provides FY2021 supplemental appropriations for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and modifies requirements related to administration of the fund. The fund was established in response to COVID-19 to make grants to eligible food and beverage purveyors for covering specified costs such as payroll, operational expenses, and paid sick leave.
The bill correspondingly rescinds unobligated amounts previously made available for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program and coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds.
Further, the bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to (1) review and process grant applications in the order in which they are received; (2) impose requirements on applicants that reduce waste, fraud, and abuse; and (3) submit and report monthly on an oversight and audit plan outlining the SBA's policies, procedures, and activities with respect to these grants.

To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to provide additional 
  appropriations for, and oversight of, the Restaurant Revitalization 
                     Fund, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as ``Entrepreneurs Need Timely Replenishment 
(for) Eating Establishments Act'' or the ``ENTREE Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, there 
is appropriated for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, $60,000,000,000, to remain available until 
expended and to be deposited into the Restaurant Revitalization Fund 
established under Section 5003(b)(2)(A) of the American Rescue Plan Act 
of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9009c(b)(2)(A); Public Law 117-2).
    (b) Pay for.--There is hereby rescinded, from the unobligated 
amounts available under the following provisions of law, a total amount 
of $60,000,000,000:
            (1) Section 5002(b) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
        (15 U.S.C. 9009 note; Public Law 117-2).
            (2) Section 602 of title VI of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 802).
            (3) Section 603 of title VI of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 803).

SEC. 3. GRANT OVERSIGHT AND PRIORITIZATION.

    Section 5003 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 
9009c; Public Law 117-2), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
                following new subparagraphs:
                    ``(C) Process order.--The Administrator shall 
                review and process applications in the order in which 
                they are received.
                    ``(D) Prevention of waste, fraud, and abuse.--The 
                Administrator shall impose requirements on applicants 
                for the purpose of reducing waste, fraud, and abuse.''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``The 
                Administrator may take'' and all that follows through 
                the period at the end; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(d) Oversight and Audit Plan.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 45 days after the date of 
        enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall submit to 
        the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 
        Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
        Representatives an oversight and audit plan that details the 
        policies and procedures of the Administrator for conducting 
        oversight and an appropriate level of audits with respect to 
        grants made under this section, which shall include the metrics 
        used to determine which grants to audit.
            ``(2) Reports.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this subsection, and each month thereafter until 
        the date that is 1 year after the date on which all amounts 
        appropriated under subsection (b)(2) have been expended, the 
        Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business 
        and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small 
        Business of the House of Representatives a report on the 
        oversight and audit activities carried out by the Administrator 
        with respect to grants made under this section, which shall 
        include for the period covered by the report--
                    ``(A) the number of grants approved and disbursed;
                    ``(B) the amount of grant funds received by each 
                recipient;
                    ``(C) the number of active investigations and 
                audits of grants being conducted;
                    ``(D) the number of completed investigations and 
                audits of grants, including a description of any 
                findings of fraud or other material noncompliance; and
                    ``(E) any substantial changes made to the oversight 
                and audit plan submitted under paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Identifiable or proprietary information.--The 
        Administrator shall ensure that each report submitted pursuant 
        to paragraph (2) is free from any identifiable or proprietary 
        information of a grant recipient.''.
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