[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3654 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3654

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 7, 2020

    Ms. Smith (for herself, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, and Mrs. 
   Fischer) 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 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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