Keeping Our Promise to Small Businesses Act This bill provides additional funding to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the Paycheck Protection Program, which was established to assist small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the bill provides the additional funding for the cost of processing loan applications that were submitted on or before May 4, 2021; and providing guaranteed loans to eligible entities that apply on or before May 31, 2021, have no more than 100 employees, and are located in a state with an unemployment rate of at least 6%. In guaranteeing the new loans, the SBA must give a preference to entities that are women-, minority-, or veteran-owned.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Commerce
AppropriationsBusiness expensesCardiovascular and respiratory healthEmergency medical services and trauma careExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment lending and loan guaranteesInfectious and parasitic diseasesMinority and disadvantaged businessesSmall businessSmall Business AdministrationUnemploymentVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationWages and earningsWomen in business
Keeping Our Promise to Small Businesses Act
USA117th CongressS-1690| Senate
| Updated: 5/18/2021
Keeping Our Promise to Small Businesses Act This bill provides additional funding to the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the Paycheck Protection Program, which was established to assist small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the bill provides the additional funding for the cost of processing loan applications that were submitted on or before May 4, 2021; and providing guaranteed loans to eligible entities that apply on or before May 31, 2021, have no more than 100 employees, and are located in a state with an unemployment rate of at least 6%. In guaranteeing the new loans, the SBA must give a preference to entities that are women-, minority-, or veteran-owned.
AppropriationsBusiness expensesCardiovascular and respiratory healthEmergency medical services and trauma careExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment lending and loan guaranteesInfectious and parasitic diseasesMinority and disadvantaged businessesSmall businessSmall Business AdministrationUnemploymentVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationWages and earningsWomen in business