Title: Main Street Enhancement and Safety Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Main Street Enhancement and Safety Act
This bill expands allowable and forgivable uses for loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), to include reopening costs.
Reopening costs are costs for (1) acquiring health and safety supplies, including personal protective equipment, needed to prepare for reopening; and (2) creating a safe environment for customers upon reopening, including changing or modifying the recipient's business.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3716 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3716

 To provide loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program for 
    costs related to health and safety supplies, including personal 
 protective equipment, needed to prepare for reopening, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2020

  Ms. McSally introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program for 
    costs related to health and safety supplies, including personal 
 protective equipment, needed to prepare for reopening, 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 the ``Main Street Enhancement and Safety 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY SUPPLIES, PPE, AND 
              REOPENING COSTS.

    (a) Allowable Use of PPP Loan.--Section 7(a)(36)(F)(i) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(F)(i)) is amended--
            (1) in subclause (VI), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subclause (VII), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VIII) costs for health and 
                                safety supplies, including personal 
                                protective equipment, needed to prepare 
                                for reopening; and
                                    ``(IX) costs related to creating a 
                                safe environment for customers upon 
                                reopening, including changes, 
                                modifications, or improvements to the 
                                business of the eligible recipient.''.
    (b) Loan Forgiveness.--Section 1106 of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116-136) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (7)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
                        ``and'' at the end; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) reopening costs;'';
                    (B) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) the term `reopening costs' means the costs described 
        in subclauses (VIII) and (IX) of paragraph (36)(a)(F)(i) of 
        section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)), as 
        added by section 1102 of this Act.'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Reopening costs.'';
            (3) in subsection (e), by inserting ``or for reopening 
        costs'' after ``utility payments''; and
            (4) in subsection (h), by inserting ``reopening costs,'' 
        after ``lease obligations,'' each place that term appears.
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