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        <dc:title>Rebuilding Small Businesses After Disasters Act</dc:title>
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        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 116–70</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To extend the sunset for collateral requirements for Small Business Administration disaster loans.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference" role="uscRef"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t15/s631">15 U.S.C. 631 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Rebuilding Small Businesses After Disasters Act</shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">EXTENSION OF SUNSET FOR COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SBA DISASTER LOANS. </heading><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 2102(b) of the RISE After Disaster Act of 2015 (15 U.S.C. 636 note) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">4 years</quotedText>” and inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">7 years</quotedText>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">GAO REPORT ON DEFAULT RATES. </heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives a report comparing—</chapeau>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">the performance, including the default rate, of loans made under section 7(b)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)) during the period—</chapeau>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">beginning on January 1, 2000; and</content>
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">ending on the date on which the Small Business Administration began making loans in accordance with the amendment made by section 2102(a) of the RISE After Disaster Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-88; 129 Stat. 690); and</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">the performance, including the default rate, of loans made under 7(b)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)) in accordance with the amendment made by section   2102(a) of the RISE After Disaster Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-88; 129 Stat. 690).</content>
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