To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to carry out a loan program for eligible applicants during the shutdown, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest short-term covered loans to eligible small-business applicants during a government shutdown.
Who Benefits and How
Small businesses that lose activity during a shutdown could gain access to emergency SBA-backed liquidity at a one percent rate.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The SBA would have to stand up and administer the shutdown loan program and assume programmatic risk tied to emergency lending.
Key Provisions
- Requires an SBA program providing covered loans during a shutdown to eligible applicants.
- Caps the interest rate at one percent and maturity at one year after the shutdown ends.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest short-term covered loans to eligible small-business applicants during a government shutdown.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires the Small Business Administration to offer low-interest short-term covered loans to eligible small-business applicants during a government shutdown.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Eligible small businesses seeking shutdown-loss financing
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Small Business Administration officials administering the emergency loan program
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Subramanyam introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Eligible small businesses receiving shutdown-period liquidity support
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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