[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5661 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5661

  To amend the microloan program of the Small Business Act to define 
                     State, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2023

 Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mrs. Radewagen) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the microloan program of the Small Business Act to define 
                     State, 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 
Entrepreneurship Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. MICROLOAN PROGRAM; DEFINITIONS.

    Paragraph (11) of section 7(m) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(m)(11)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii) of subparagraph (C), by striking 
        ``rural'' and all that follows through the end of the clause 
        and inserting ``rural;'';
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) the term `State' means each of the several 
                States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
                Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, 
                Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
                and American Samoa.''.
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