[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 154 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 154

To amend the Small Business Act to ensure small businesses affected by 
 the onset of transmissible diseases are eligible for disaster relief.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 17, 2017

 Mr. Rubio (for himself and Mr. Nelson) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
                          and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Small Business Act to ensure small businesses affected by 
 the onset of transmissible diseases are eligible for disaster relief.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Relief From Disease 
Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3(k)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 632(k)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) communicable diseases for which the Federal 
        Government issues a travel alert or travel warning.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to a communicable disease--
            (1) for which the Federal Government issues a travel alert 
        or travel warning before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
        this Act; and
            (2) the effects of which are experienced on or after the 
        date of enactment of this Act.
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