Title: To amend the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act with respect to grants for shuttered venue operators, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
This bill includes attraction operators within the scope of eligibility for a grant program that was established to provide economic relief to venue operators in response to COVID-19. The bill defines an attraction operator as an individual or entity that owns or operates an amusement park, amusement arcade or parlor, or amusement device or concession, with the exclusion of any such business that also carries out gambling activities.
Under current law, these grants are made available to certain entertainment venues (i.e., places where events of a specific type are held), such as live venue operators or promoters, theatrical producers, and live performing arts organization operators.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3392 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3392

To amend the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and 
 Venues Act with respect to grants for shuttered venue operators, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2021

  Mr. Garbarino (for himself, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Jacobs of New York, Mr. 
Zeldin, and Mr. Case) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and 
 Venues Act with respect to grants for shuttered venue operators, 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. GRANTS FOR SHUTTERED VENUE OPERATORS.

    (a) Eligible Person or Entity.--Section 324(a)(1) of the Economic 
Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (title III 
of division N of Public Law 116-260) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
                inserting ``an attraction operator,'' after ``motion 
                picture theatre operator,'';
                    (B) in clause (i)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subclause (I), 
                        by inserting ``the attraction operator,'' after 
                        ``motion picture theatre operator,'';
                            (ii) in subclause (I), by inserting ``an 
                        attraction operator,'' after ``motion picture 
                        theatre operator,''; and
                            (iii) in subclause (II), by inserting ``the 
                        attraction operator,'' after ``motion picture 
                        theatre operator,'';
                    (C) in clause (ii)--
                            (i) in subclause (III), by striking ``or'' 
                        at the end;
                            (ii) by redesignating subclause (IV) as 
                        subclause (V); and
                            (iii) by inserting after subclause (III) 
                        the following new subclause:
                                    ``(IV) the attraction operator is 
                                open or intends to reopen; or''; and
                    (D) in clause (vi)--
                            (i) by inserting ``the attraction 
                        operator,'' after ``the motion picture theatre 
                        operator,'' each place it appears; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``attractions,'' after 
                        ``motion picture theatres,'' each place it 
                        appears; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``an attraction 
        operator,'' after ``motion picture theatre operator,''.
    (b) Attraction Operator.--Section 324(a) of the Economic Aid to 
Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (title III of 
division N of Public Law 116-260) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(11) Attraction operator.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The term `attraction operator' 
                means an individual or entity that--
                            ``(i) as the principal business activity of 
                        the individual or entity, owns or operates an--
                                    ``(I) amusement park;
                                    ``(II) amusement arcade or parlor; 
                                or
                                    ``(III) amusement device or 
                                concession; and
                            ``(ii) includes an individual or entity 
                        described in clause (i) that--
                                    ``(I) operates for profit;
                                    ``(II) is a nonprofit organization;
                                    ``(III) is government-owned; or
                                    ``(IV) is a corporation, limited 
                                liability company, or partnership or 
                                operated as a sole proprietorship.
                    ``(B) Exclusion.--An individual or entity that owns 
                or operates a business described in subclause (I), 
                (II), or (III) of subparagraph (A)(i) may not be 
                treated as an `attraction operator' if gambling 
                activities are carried out as part of such business.''.
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