[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 140 (Thursday, August 6, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S5303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2606. Mrs. LOEFFLER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE EXPENSES.

       (a) Allowable Use of PPP Loan.--Section 7(a)(36)(F)(i) of 
     the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(F)(i)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subclause (VI), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in subclause (VII), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:

       ``(VIII) covered operations expenditures, as defined in 
     section 1106(a) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9005(a)).''.

       (b) Loan Forgiveness.--Section 1106 of the CARES Act (15 
     U.S.C. 9005) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (8) as 
     paragraphs (4) through (9), respectively;
       (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
       ``(3) the term `covered operations expenditure' means a 
     payment for any business software or cloud computing service 
     that facilitates business operations, product or service 
     delivery, the processing, payment, or tracking of payroll 
     expenses, human resources, sales and billing functions, or 
     accounting or tracking of supplies, inventory, records and 
     expenses;''; and
       (C) in paragraph (8), as so redesignated--
       (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
     and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(E) covered operations expenditures; and'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(5) Any covered operations expenditure.'';
       (3) in subsection (d)(8), by inserting ``any payment on any 
     covered operations expenditure,'' after ``rent obligation,''; 
     and
       (4) in subsection (e)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``payments on covered 
     operations expenditures,'' after ``lease obligations,''; and
       (B) in paragraph (3)(B), by inserting ``make payments on 
     covered operations expenditures,'' after ``rent 
     obligation,''.
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