SBA Reaching all Communities Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6301
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2020-03-19
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Foreign language and bilingual programs

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-03-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>SBA Reaching all Communities Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Small Business Administration to provide resources and services to small businesses in the 10 most commonly spoken languages, other than English, in the United States. This shall include Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6301 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 19, 2020 Ms. Judy Chu of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to provide resources and services to small business concerns in languages other than English, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the SBA Reaching all Communities Act of 2020 . 2. Resources and services in languages other than English (a) In general The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide resources and services to small business concerns (as defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 )) in the 10 most commonly spoken languages, other than English, in the United States, which shall include Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. (b) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration $25,000,000 to carry out this section.