Title: Small Business Relief Accessibility Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Small Business Relief Accessibility Act
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a Community Navigator pilot program for increasing awareness of and participation in SBA programs that are made available to small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2360 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2360

  To establish a program to increase small business awareness of, and 
participation in, Small Business Administration programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 2021

 Mr. Delgado introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To establish a program to increase small business awareness of, and 
participation in, Small Business Administration programs, 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 ``Small Business Relief Accessibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the 
        Small Business Administration.
            (2) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
            (3) Community navigator services.--The term ``community 
        navigator services'' means the outreach, education, and 
        technical assistance provided by community navigators that 
        target eligible businesses to increase awareness of, and 
        participation in, programs of the Small Business 
        Administration.
            (4) Community navigator.--The term ``community navigator'' 
        means a community organization, community financial institution 
        as defined in section 7(a)(36)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(A)), or other private nonprofit organization 
        engaged in the delivery of community navigator services.
            (5) Eligible business.--The term ``eligible business'' 
        means any small business concern, with priority for small 
        business concerns owned and controlled by women (as defined in 
        section 3(n) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(n))), 
        small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans (as 
        defined in section 3(q) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q))), and 
        socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns 
        (as defined in section 8(a)(4)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 637(a)(4)(A))).
            (6) Private nonprofit organization.--The term ``private 
        nonprofit organization'' means an entity that is described in 
        section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt 
        from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.
            (7) Resource partner.--The term ``resource partner'' 
        means--
                    (A) a small business development center (as defined 
                in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
                632));
                    (B) a women's business center (as described in 
                section 29 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 656)); 
                and
                    (C) a chapter of the Service Corps of Retired 
                Executives (as defined in section 8(b)(1)(B) of the Act 
                (15 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B))).
            (8) Small business concern.--The term ``small business 
        concern'' has the meaning given under section 3 of the Small 
        Business Act (15 25 U.S.C. 632).
            (9) State.--The term ``State'' means a State of the United 
        States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
        Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of 
        the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, or an agency, 
        instrumentality, or fiscal agent thereof.
            (10) Unit of general local government.--The term ``unit of 
        general local government'' means a county, city, town, village, 
        or other general purpose political subdivision of a State.

SEC. 3. COMMUNITY NAVIGATOR PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall establish a Community Navigator pilot program to 
make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, 
private nonprofit organizations, resource partners, States, Tribes, and 
units of local government to ensure the delivery of free community 
navigator services to current or prospective owners of eligible 
businesses in order to improve access to assistance programs and 
resources made available because of the COVID-19 pandemic by Federal, 
State, Tribal, and local entities.
    (b) Appropriations.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, 
there is appropriated to the Administrator for fiscal year 2021, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for carrying out this section.

SEC. 4. OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.

    (a) Promotion.--The Administrator shall develop and implement a 
program to promote community navigator services to current or 
prospective owners of eligible businesses.
    (b) Call Center.--The Administrator shall establish a telephone 
hotline to offer information about Federal programs to assist eligible 
businesses and offer referral services to resource partners, community 
navigators, potential lenders, and other persons that the Administrator 
determines appropriate for current or prospective owners of eligible 
businesses.
    (c) Outreach.--The Administrator shall--
            (1) conduct outreach and education, in the 10 most commonly 
        spoken languages in the United States, to current or 
        prospective owners of eligible businesses on community 
        navigator services and other Federal programs to assist 
        eligible businesses;
            (2) improve the website of the Administration to describe 
        such community navigator services and other Federal programs; 
        and
            (3) implement an education campaign by advertising in media 
        targeted to current or prospective owners of eligible 
        businesses.
    (d) Appropriations.--In addition to amounts otherwise available, 
there is appropriated to the Administrator for fiscal year 2021, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $75,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for carrying out this section.
    (e) Sunset.--The authority of the Administrator to make grants 
under this Act shall terminate on December 31, 2025.
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