Small Business Access to Capital and Efficiency Act Public Law 115–371 Small Business Access to Capital and Efficiency Act 371 115–371 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 Small Business Access to Capital and Efficiency Act Small Business ACE Act 15146 115 2018-12-21 Small Business Access to Capital and Efficiency Act [(Public Law 115–371)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 115-371. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo adjust the real estate appraisal thresholds under the section 504 program to bring them into line with the thresholds used by the Federal banking regulators, 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. [15 U.S.C. 661 note] SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Small Business Access to Capital and Efficiency Act” or the “Small Business ACE Act”.
SEC. 2. APPRAISAL THRESHOLDS. Section 502(3)(E)(ii) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 696(3)(E)(ii)) is amended— (1) by redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as items (aa) and (bb), respectively, and adjusting the margins of such items accordingly; (2) by striking “With respect to” and inserting the following: “(I) In general.—With respect to” ; (3) in item (aa), as so redesignated, by striking “is more than $250,000” and inserting “is more than the Federal banking regulator appraisal threshold”; (4) in item (bb), as so redesignated, by striking “is $250,000 or less” and inserting “is equal to or less than the Federal banking regulator appraisal threshold”; and (5) by adding at the end the following: “(II) Federal banking regulator appraisal threshold defined.—For purposes of this clause, the term ‘Federal banking regulator appraisal threshold’ means the lesser of the threshold amounts set by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for when a federally related transaction that is a commercial real estate transaction requires an appraisal prepared by a State licensed or certified appraiser.” .