A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration make a technical correction to the Restaurant Revitalization program to allow distilleries that are prohibited by State law from meeting the onsite sales requirements under the program to participate in the program.

Bill: 117-s-2355
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2021-07-15
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages

Business expenses

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Food industry and services

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Small business

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-15
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Small Business Administration to revise the rules for the Restaurant Revitalization program to enable certain distilleries that are prohibited from meeting on-site sales requirements to participate in the program. The program provides support to eligible food and beverage purveyors to cover specified costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2355 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 15, 2021 Ms. Cantwell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship A BILL To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration make a technical correction to the Restaurant Revitalization program to allow distilleries that are prohibited by State law from meeting the onsite sales requirements under the program to participate in the program.

1. Restaurant Revitalization The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall amend the rules relating to the Restaurant Revitalization program under section 5003 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ( Public Law 117–2 ; 135 Stat. 85; 15 U.S.C. 9009c ) to allow a distillery that is located in a State the law of which sets a limit on the percentage of the gross receipts of a distillery that may come from onsite sales that is less than 33 percent to qualify as an eligible entity under such section if the combined total of the gross receipts of the distillery from onsite sales and sales to retailers for onsite sale is not less than 33 percent.