Northern Mariana Islands Entrepreneurship Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3438
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-05-20
Policy area: Commerce
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Northern Mariana Islands Entrepreneurship Act of 2021</b></p> <p>This bill expands eligibility for the Microloan Program of the Small Business Administration to include the Northern Mariana Islands.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3438 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2021 Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mrs. Radewagen ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To amend the microloan program of the Small Business Act to define State, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands Entrepreneurship Act of 2021 . 2. Microloan program; definitions Paragraph (11) of section 7(m) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 636(m)(11) ) is amended— (1) in clause (ii) of subparagraph (C), by striking rural and all that follows to the end of the clause and inserting rural; ; (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (E) the term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. .