[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3907 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3907

 To provide that all critical access 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

                              June 8, 2020

  Ms. Collins 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 all critical access 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 ``PPP for Critical Access Hospitals 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS IN THE PAYCHECK 
              PROTECTION PROGRAM.

    Section 7(a)(36)(D) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(a)(36)(D)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(vii) Inclusion of critical access 
                        hospitals.--During the covered period, any 
                        nonprofit organization that is a critical 
                        access hospital (as defined in section 1861(mm) 
                        of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                        1395x(mm))) shall be eligible to receive a 
                        covered loan, regardless of the status of such 
                        a hospital as a debtor in a case under chapter 
                        11 of title 11, Unites States Code, or the 
                        status of any debts owed by such a hospital to 
                        the Federal Government.''.
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