[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2603 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2603

To amend the Small Business Act to ensure that the Commonwealth of the 
    Northern Mariana Islands is eligible for certain Small Business 
            Administration programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2019

  Mr. Sablan 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 ensure that the Commonwealth of the 
    Northern Mariana Islands is eligible for certain Small Business 
            Administration programs, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Northern Mariana Islands Small 
Business Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS 
              FOR CERTAIN SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS.

    The Small Business Act is amended--
            (1) in section 7(m)(7)(B) (15 U.S.C. 636(m)(7)(B))--
                    (A) by striking ``and American Samoa'' each place 
                such term appears and inserting ``American Samoa, and 
                the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''; and
                    (B) in clause (i)(I)(bb), by striking ``\1/55\'' 
                and inserting ``\1/56\'';
            (2) in section 21(a) (15 U.S.C. 648(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting before ``The 
                Administration shall require'' the following new 
                sentence: ``The previous sentence shall not apply to an 
                applicant that has its principal office located in the 
                Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (4)(C)(ix), by striking ``and 
                American Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and 
                the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''; and
            (3) in section 34(a)(9) (15 U.S.C. 657d(a)(9)), by striking 
        ``and American Samoa'' and inserting ``American Samoa, and the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands''.
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