[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7984 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7984

 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
improve access to disaster assistance for individuals located in rural 
                     areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 2024

Mr. Pappas (for himself, Mr. Bean of Florida, Mr. Golden of Maine, and 
  Mr. Mann) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
improve access to disaster assistance for individuals located in rural 
                     areas, 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 Small Business Resilience 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN RURAL 
              AREAS.

    Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall 
ensure that the Associate Administrator of the Office of Disaster 
Recovery and Resilience of the Administration takes such actions as 
necessary to ensure that individuals located in rural areas (as defined 
in paragraph (16) of section 7(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(b)(16))) for which a disaster declaration has been made under such 
section 7(b) have full access to assistance provided under such 
section, including by providing targeted outreach and marketing 
materials to such individuals.

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

    The second paragraph (16) (relating to statute of limitations) of 
section 7(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)) is 
redesignated as paragraph (17).
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