LIFE NOW Act

Bill: 116-s-3709
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Loeffler, Kelly [R-GA]
Introduced: 2020-05-13
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Abortion

Business expenses

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government lending and loan guarantees

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Small business

Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Limiting Infant Fatality and Empowering Nonprofit Organization Workforces or the LIFE NOW Act</b></p> <p>This bill modifies the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).</p> <p>Specifically, the bill expands the program to encompass any nonprofit organization regardless of size, and it strikes the affiliation requirements applicable to nonprofit organizations and veterans organizations.</p> <p>The bill also makes any entity that provides abortions ineligible to receive a paycheck protection loan. An exception is allowed for abortions performed at hospitals or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or endangers the life of the mother.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3709 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 13, 2020 Mrs. Loeffler (for herself, Mr. Lankford , Mr. Rounds , and Mr. Cramer ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship A BILL To increase the eligibility of nonprofit organizations for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Limiting Infant Fatality and Empowering Nonprofit Organization Workforces or the LIFE NOW Act . 2. Amendments to the Paycheck Protection Program (a) Eligibility of all nonprofit organizations for loans Section 7(a)(36)(D) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(a)(D) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i), by striking nonprofit organization, each place that term appears; (2) in clause (v), by striking nonprofit organization, ; and (3) by striking clause (vi) and inserting the following: (vi) Eligibility for nonprofit organizations During the covered period, any nonprofit organization shall be eligible to receive a covered loan. . (b) Prohibition on funding for abortions Section 7(a)(36) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (S) Prohibition on funding for abortions (i) In general Except as provided in clause (ii), no entity, including an affiliate, subsidiary, successor, or clinic thereof, that provides abortions shall be eligible to receive a covered loan. (ii) Exceptions Clause (i) shall not apply to— (I) a hospital, as defined in section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x(e) ); or (II) an abortion described in section 507(a) of division A of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ). .