[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6569 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6569

 To provide that certain public hospitals are eligible for loans under 
        the Paycheck Protection Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2020

  Mr. Smith of Nebraska (for himself, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, and Mr. 
  Arrington) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that certain public hospitals are eligible for loans under 
        the Paycheck Protection Program, 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 ``Rural Health Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS FOR LOANS UNDER THE PAYCHECK 
              PROTECTION PROGRAM.

    Section 7(a)(36) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)) 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by redesignating clauses (ii) through (ix) as 
                clauses (iii) through (x), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after clause (i) the following:
                            ``(ii) the term `covered hospital' means a 
                        public hospital that is owned or operated by a 
                        State or local government;''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (D)--
                    (A) in the subparagraph heading, by inserting ``, 
                hospitals,'' after ``businesses'';
                    (B) in clause (i), by inserting ``covered 
                hospital,'' after ``veterans organization,'' each place 
                that term appears;
                    (C) in clause (v), by inserting ``covered 
                hospital,'' after ``veterans organization,''; and
                    (D) in clause (vi), by striking ``organization 
                and'' and inserting ``organization, a covered hospital, 
                and''.
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