Title: Small Business Relief From Communicable Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2020
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Business Relief From Communicable Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2020
This bill expands the definition of a disaster for which the Small Business Administration (SBA) may provide disaster loans to small business concerns to include communicable diseases for which the government issues a travel alert or travel warning, and it authorizes the SBA to make interest free disaster loans to small businesses affected by a disaster for which the government issues a public health emergency.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6040 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6040

To amend the Small Business Act to ensure small businesses affected by 
  the onset of communicable diseases are eligible for disaster relief.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2020

 Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Ms. Judy Chu of California, and Ms. Meng) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to ensure small businesses affected by 
  the onset of communicable diseases are eligible for disaster relief.

    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 ``Small Business Relief From 
Communicable Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ECONOMIC INJURY LOANS FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

    (a) Definition of a Disaster.--Section 3(k)(2) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(k)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) a communicable disease for which the Federal 
        Government has issued a travel alert or travel warning.''.
    (b) Terms.--Section 7(b)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or'';
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:
                    ``(E) a disaster described under section 3(k)(2)(D) 
                for which the Federal Government has issued a public 
                health emergency.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following: ``A loan made 
        pursuant to a disaster described under subparagraph (E) shall 
        not require the payment of interest.''.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by this section shall apply 
to a communicable disease--
            (1) for which the Federal Government issues a travel alert 
        or travel warning before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
        this Act; and
            (2) the effects of which are experienced on or after the 
        date of enactment of this Act.
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