Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act

Bill: 118-s-1763
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-05-31
Policy area: Commerce
Latest action: action_date: 2023-05-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-05-31
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act</strong></p> <p>This bill includes smoke within the definition of a disaster for the purpose of providing economic injury disaster loans to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, and most private nonprofit organizations.</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1763 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 31 (legislative day, May 30), 2023 Ms. Cortez Masto introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship A BILL To include smoke in the definition of disaster in the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Wildfire Smoke Recovery Act . 2. Definition of disaster Section 3(k)(2) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632(k)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (D) smoke. .