[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4598 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4598

To amend the Small Business Act to require public communications about 
    disaster assistance resources to be made in multiple languages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2017

Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Soto, and Miss Gonzalez-Colon 
 of Puerto Rico) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to require public communications about 
    disaster assistance resources to be made in multiple languages.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT DISASTER 
              ASSISTANCE RESOURCES TO BE MADE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

    Section 7(b)(5) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)(5)) is 
amended by inserting ``in multiple languages,'' after ``web-based 
outlets,''.
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