Title: SUPPLIES Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Shoring Up Personal Protective and Lifesaving Indispensable Equipment Stockpile Act or the SUPPLIES Act
This bill establishes a temporary grant program to assist small businesses in producing covered goods (e.g., ventilators, surgical masks, and hand sanitizer) that are needed to address the national emergency related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
A grant recipient must prioritize the domestic sale of covered goods and refrain from selling such goods at a price that grossly exceeds the average price for the 90-day period prior to January 31, 2020.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6696 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6696

   To establish a program providing grants to certain small business 
 concerns to modify or reallocate their productive facilities to begin 
    or increase production of certain medical supplies critical to 
       addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2020

Ms. Davids of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish a program providing grants to certain small business 
 concerns to modify or reallocate their productive facilities to begin 
    or increase production of certain medical supplies critical to 
       addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, 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 ``Shoring Up Personal Protective and 
Lifesaving Indispensable Equipment Stockpile Act'' or the ``SUPPLIES 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASING PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL MEDICAL SUPPLIES.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 15 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall establish a program to provide grants to modify or 
reallocate the productive facilities of small business concerns to 
produce a covered good that is critically needed to address the 
national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    (b) Application.--A small business concern seeking a grant under 
this section shall submit to the Administrator an application at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the 
Administration may reasonably require.
    (c) Eligibility.--A small business concern that has not begun 
modifications or reallocations of the productive facilities of such 
concern before the date on which the national emergency was declared is 
eligible to receive a grant under this section to modify or reallocate 
such productive facilities.
    (d) Grant Terms.--
            (1) Matching requirement.--
                    (A) In general.--A small business concern receiving 
                a grant under this section shall provide non-Federal 
                matching funds equal to not less than 25 percent of the 
                grant.
                    (B) In-kind support.--The non-Federal matching 
                funds described in subparagraph (A) may include in-kind 
                support.
            (2) Sale requirements.--With respect to covered goods 
        produced by a grant recipient during the period of the national 
        emergency as a result of a modification or reallocation of 
        productive facilities using grant amounts, such grant 
        recipient, and any parent company or affiliate of such 
        recipient, shall--
                    (A) prioritize the domestic sale of any such 
                covered goods; and
                    (B) sell such covered goods at a price that does 
                not grossly exceed the average price of such covered 
                goods for the 90-day period ending on January 31, 2020, 
                for the region in which the grant recipient sells such 
                covered goods, except to the extent that the price 
                reasonably reflects additional production costs.
    (e) Priorities.--In making grants under this Act, the Administrator 
shall prioritize applications based on--
            (1) the expected date by which the applicant will begin or 
        increase production of covered goods;
            (2) the expected number of covered goods that will be 
        produced as a result of a modification or reallocation of 
        productive facilities using grant amounts; and
            (3) such other criteria that the Administrator determines 
        to be appropriate.
    (f) Grant Period.--Grants under this section may only be made 
during the period of the national emergency.
    (g) Rulemaking.--Not later than 15 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator shall issue rules to carry out this Act.
    (h) Reports.--
            (1) Interim report.--Not later than 6 months after the date 
        of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the 
        Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and 
        the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 
        Senate a report on the grants made under this Act, including--
                    (A) the total number and dollar amount of such 
                grants;
                    (B) a list of the recipients of such grants; and
                    (C) with respect to each such grant, how grant 
                funds are being used.
            (2) Final report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the 
        Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives and 
        the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the 
        Senate a report evaluating the effect of the program 
        established under subsection (a) on the response to the COVID-
        19 pandemic, including--
                    (A) a description of any covered goods produced by 
                a grant recipient as a result of a modification or 
                reallocation of productive facilities using grant 
                amounts;
                    (B) the total number of each such covered good 
                produced;
                    (C) a list of purchasers of more than 500 covered 
                goods produced as a result of a modification or 
                reallocation of productive facilities using grant 
                amounts;
                    (D) a description of the overall effect that the 
                manufacturing of covered goods by grant recipients had 
                in meeting the increased demand for such covered goods 
                resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; and
                    (E) recommendations for continuing or improving the 
                program.
    (i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $100,000,000 through September 30, 2021, to carry out this 
Act.
    (j) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
            (2) Covered good.--The term ``covered good'' means invasive 
        or multifunction ventilators, N95 respirators, surgical masks, 
        surgical gowns, sanitizing wipes, nasopharyngeal swabs, viral 
        transport media, procedure masks, hand sanitizer, face shields, 
        or nitrile exam gloves.
            (3) National emergency.--The term ``national emergency'' 
        means the national emergency declared by the President under 
        the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) with 
        respect to COVID-19.
            (4) Small business concern.--The term ``small business 
        concern'' has the same meaning as under section 3 of the Small 
        Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).
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