To amend the Small Business Act to require public communications about disaster assistance resources to be made in multiple languages.

Bill: 115-hr-4598
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-12-07
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Disaster relief and insurance

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Government lending and loan guarantees

Small Business Administration

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2017-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill directs the Small Business Administration to make every effort to use multiple languages when informing the public about information related to the availability of additional disaster assistance in the event of a declared major disaster.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4598 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 7, 2017 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Velázquez , Mr. Soto , and Miss González-Colón of Puerto Rico ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To amend the Small Business Act to require public communications about disaster assistance resources to be made in multiple languages.

1. Requirement for public communications about disaster assistance resources to be made in multiple languages Section 7(b)(5) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b)(5) ) is amended by inserting in multiple languages, after web-based outlets, .