Ensuring Increased Disaster Loans for Small Businesses Act

Bill: 117-s-513
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-03-01
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Appropriations

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Congressional oversight

Disaster relief and insurance

Economic performance and conditions

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Executive agency funding and structure

Government lending and loan guarantees

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Small Business Administration

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-01
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Ensuring Increased Disaster Loans for Small Businesses Act or the EIDL for Small Businesses Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes and provides funding for additional Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loans and advances on such loans, and it modifies the requirements for providing these advances.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill authorizes an additional disaster loan to a prior recipient that received such a loan during the period between January 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021, up to an aggregate amount of $2 million. Further, the bill prohibits the SBA from imposing a maximum loan amount limit that is lower than $2 million for an initial disaster loan.</p> <p>The bill also requires the SBA to provide a recipient of an additional disaster loan an additional advance such that the total advance amount received by the applicant is $10,000.</p> <p>The SBA must submit a monthly report on the status of appropriations for disaster loans.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 513 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 1, 2021 Ms. Rosen (for herself and Mr. Cornyn ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship A BILL To improve access to economic injury disaster loans and emergency advances under the CARES Act, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Increased Disaster Loans for Small Businesses Act or the EIDL for Small Businesses Act . 2. Definitions In this Act, the terms Administration and Administrator mean the Small Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, respectively. 3. Economic injury disaster loans (a) Loans for new borrowers With respect to an economic injury disaster loan made under section 7(b)(2) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b)(2) ) during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2021, the Administrator shall not impose a maximum loan amount limit that is lower than $2,000,000. (b) Additional loan for existing borrowers (1) In general A recipient of an economic disaster injury loan made under section 7(b)(2) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b)(2) ) during the period beginning on January 31, 2020, and ending on December 31, 2021, may submit to the Administration a request for an additional amount to increase in the amount of that loan in an amount requested by the applicant, provided that the aggregate amount received under such section by the recipient during that period shall be not more than $2,000,000. (2) Consideration In considering a request submitted under paragraph (1), the Administrator— (A) shall issue a determination based on the documentation submitted by the applicant for the initial loan under section 7(b)(2) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b)(2) ); and (B) shall not require the applicant to submit additional documentation. (c) EIDL advances Section 1110(e)(3) of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9009(e)(3) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (C) Additional amount With respect to any recipient of an advance under this subsection before the date of enactment of the Ensuring Increased Disaster Loans for Small Businesses Act of less than $10,000, the Administrator shall, not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of that Act, provide to the recipient an additional advance such that the total amount received by the recipient is $10,000. . (d) Monthly report Not later than 1 month after the date of enactment of this Act, and every month thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report on, for the month covered by the report— (1) the status of the appropriations account under the heading Small Business Administration—Disaster Loans Program Account , including all obligations, allocations, and amounts undistributed or unallocated; (2) the allocations, obligations, and expenditures from that account for all declared disasters under section 7(b) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(b) ); and (3) an estimate of when available appropriations in that account will be exhausted. (e) Appropriations for EIDL advances (1) Authorization of appropriations Section 1110(e)(7) of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9009(e)(7) ) is amended by striking $20,000,000,000 and inserting $35,000,000,000 . (2) Direct appropriations There is appropriated, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for an additional amount under the heading Small Business Administration—Emergency EIDL Grants for the cost of emergency economic injury disaster loan grants authorized by section 1110(e) of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9009(e) ), $15,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally. (3) Emergency designation (A) In general The amounts provided under this subsection are designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 933(g) ). (B) Designation in senate In the Senate, this subsection is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.