[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1763 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1763

 To include smoke in the definition of disaster in the Small Business 
                      Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 31 (legislative day, May 30), 2023

 Ms. Cortez Masto 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 include smoke in the definition of disaster in the Small Business 
                      Act, 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 ``Small Business Wildfire Smoke 
Recovery Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF DISASTER.

    Section 3(k)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(k)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) smoke.''.
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