Rural Small Business Resilience Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires the Small Business Administration to ensure rural disaster-declaration areas have full access to SBA disaster assistance, including targeted outreach and marketing materials, and makes a technical paragraph redesignation in section 7(b) of the Small Business Act.
Who Benefits and How
Rural small business owners, rural homeowners, rural renters, and rural nonprofits benefit because the SBA Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience must make sure people in rural disaster areas can access section 7(b) disaster loans and related assistance. Rural chambers of commerce and local emergency managers benefit from targeted outreach materials they can use to reach businesses after fires, floods, storms, or other disasters. SBA disaster loan applicants benefit from a clearer statutory instruction that rural location should not reduce access to assistance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The SBA Administrator and the Associate Administrator for Disaster Recovery and Resilience must take action within one year and produce targeted outreach and marketing materials. SBA disaster field offices must adapt outreach to rural communities that may have limited broadband, transportation, or local lender capacity. Federal taxpayers bear the administrative cost of expanded outreach, although the bill does not create a new grant program.
Key Provisions
- Requires SBA to ensure rural disaster areas have full access to section 7(b) disaster assistance.
- Directs targeted outreach and marketing materials for rural individuals after disaster declarations.
- Requires action within one year of enactment.
- Applies the Small Business Act rural-area definition.
- Redesignates a duplicate paragraph in section 7(b) as a technical amendment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires the Small Business Administration to ensure rural disaster-declaration areas have full access to SBA disaster assistance, including targeted outreach and marketing materials, and makes a technical paragraph redesignation in section 7(b) of the Small Business Act.
Key Policy Areas
Small Business, Disaster Assistance, Rural Development
Primary Purpose
Requires the Small Business Administration to ensure rural disaster-declaration areas have full access to SBA disaster assistance, including targeted outreach and marketing materials, and makes a technical paragraph redesignation in section 7(b) of the Small Business Act.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Rural small business owners
- Rural homeowners
- Rural renters
- Rural nonprofits
- Local emergency managers
Identified Costs
- Small Business Administration
- Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience
- SBA disaster field offices
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReported by Ms. Ernst, without amendment
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst …
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported …
Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Sheehy) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Rural small business owners, Small Business Administration
Positive-direction: Rural small business owners
Negative-direction: Small Business Administration
Rural homeowners, SBA disaster field offices
Positive-direction: Rural homeowners
Negative-direction: SBA disaster field offices
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "administrator"
- → Small Business Administration Administrator
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