LIFE NOW Act

United States116th CongressS-3709Senate
Updated: May 13, 2020

Summary

Limiting Infant Fatality and Empowering Nonprofit Organization Workforces or the LIFE NOW Act This bill modifies the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the bill expands the program to encompass any nonprofit organization regardless of size, and it strikes the affiliation requirements applicable to nonprofit organizations and veterans organizations. The bill also makes any entity that provides abortions ineligible to receive a paycheck protection loan. An exception is allowed for abortions performed at hospitals or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or endangers the life of the mother.

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HR-7211: LIFE NOW Act

Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

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