Title: To permit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to deem certain nonprofit organizations serving developmentally disabled individuals as eligible to participate in the paycheck protection program, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
This bill expands participation in the Paycheck Protection Program established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) to encompass certain nonprofit organizations that provide home and community-based services to individuals with developmental disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7664 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7664

  To permit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 deem certain nonprofit organizations serving developmentally disabled 
   individuals as eligible to participate in the paycheck protection 
                    program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2020

Mrs. Walorski introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To permit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 deem certain nonprofit organizations serving developmentally disabled 
   individuals as eligible to participate in the paycheck protection 
                    program, 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. PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN 
              NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS SERVING DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    Section 7(a)(36)(D) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(a)(36)(D)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause:
                            ``(vii) Nonprofits serving certain disabled 
                        individuals.--
                                    ``(I) Size standard waiver.--For 
                                the purposes of determining whether a 
                                covered nonprofit organization is 
                                eligible to receive a covered loan, the 
                                Administrator may deem such 
                                organization as employing not more than 
                                the size standard in number of 
                                employees established by the 
                                Administration for the industry in 
                                which such organization operates or, if 
                                no such size standard is applicable, 
                                not more than 500 employees.
                                    ``(II) Revenue not basis for 
                                ineligibility.--A covered nonprofit 
                                organization may not be determined to 
                                be ineligible for a covered loan due to 
                                the annual gross receipts of such 
                                organization.
                                    ``(III) Covered nonprofit 
                                organization defined.--In this clause, 
                                the term `covered nonprofit 
                                organization' means a nonprofit 
                                organization that--
                                            ``(aa) that provides home 
                                        and community-based services 
                                        (as referred to in section 
                                        1915(c)(1) of the Social 
                                        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                                        1396n(c)(1))) to individuals 
                                        with developmental disabilities 
                                        (as defined in section 102(8) 
                                        of the Developmental 
                                        Disabilities Assistance and 
                                        Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (42 
                                        U.S.C. 15002(8))); and
                                            ``(bb) whose annual gross 
                                        receipts do not exceed 
                                        $30,000,000.''.
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