[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 6021 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6021


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2020

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 
                          and Entrepreneurship

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                                 AN ACT


 
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 Development 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 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
            (2) 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''.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 14, 2020.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.