Rural Small Business Resilience Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Rural Small Business Resilience Act requires the Small Business Administration Administrator to ensure that the Associate Administrator of SBA's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience takes necessary actions within one year so individuals located in rural areas with a section 7(b) disaster declaration have full access to SBA disaster assistance. The required actions specifically include targeted outreach and marketing materials for those rural individuals. A technical amendment redesignates the second paragraph numbered 16 in section 7(b) of the Small Business Act as paragraph 17.
Who Benefits and How
Rural disaster survivors, rural small business owners, rural homeowners, rural renters, rural agricultural communities, rural chambers of commerce, SBA disaster-loan applicants, and local emergency-management partners benefit because SBA must make disaster assistance more visible and accessible in rural areas after a disaster declaration.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The SBA Administrator, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience staff, SBA disaster field offices, SBA communications staff, outreach contractors, and agency lawyers updating section 7(b) references bear compliance burdens because they must create targeted outreach, marketing materials, access procedures, and technical statutory corrections within one year.
Key Provisions
- Requires SBA to ensure full access to section 7(b) disaster assistance for individuals in rural disaster-declared areas.
- Requires the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to take necessary actions within one year.
- Requires targeted outreach and marketing materials for rural individuals.
- Supports rural small businesses, homeowners, renters, and disaster survivors seeking SBA disaster assistance.
- Redesignates a duplicate paragraph in section 7(b) as a technical correction.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires SBA's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to ensure, within one year, that people in rural disaster-declared areas have full access to section 7(b) disaster assistance, including targeted outreach and marketing materials, and fixes a duplicate paragraph numbering issue.
Key Policy Areas
Small Business, Disaster Relief, Rural Communities
Primary Purpose
Requires SBA's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to ensure, within one year, that people in rural disaster-declared areas have full access to section 7(b) disaster assistance, including targeted outreach and marketing materials, and fixes a duplicate paragraph numbering issue.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Rural disaster survivors
- Rural small business owners
- Rural homeowners
- Rural renters
- Rural agricultural communities
- Rural chambers of commerce
- SBA disaster-loan applicants
- Local emergency-management partners
Identified Costs
- SBA Administrator
- Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience staff
- SBA disaster field offices
- SBA communications staff
- Outreach contractors
- Agency lawyers updating section 7(b) references
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H824)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H745-746)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Rural small business owners, SBA disaster-loan applicants
Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience staff, SBA communications staff
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "sba"
- → Small Business Administration
- "odrr"
- → Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience
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