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119th CONGRESS
1st Session |
To prohibit certain business concerns from receiving assistance from the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Mr. Mills (for himself, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Steube, Mr. Baird, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. DesJarlais, and Mr. Perry) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business
To prohibit certain business concerns from receiving assistance from the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Preventing SBA Assistance from Going to China Act”.
SEC. 2. Prohibition on small business concern affiliation with the People’s Republic of China.
Section 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(10) PROHIBITION ON AFFILIATION WITH THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.—For purposes of this Act, a concern may not be considered a small business concern if such concern is—
“(A) located and incorporated in the People’s Republic of China; or
“(B) has more than 25 percent of the voting stock of the concern owned by affiliates that are citizens of or organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China.”.