[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 2607. Ms. ERNST 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. __. BUSINESSES EMPLOYING ESSENTIAL CRITICAL 
                   INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS.

       (a) In General.--Section 7(a)(36)(D)(iii) of the Small 
     Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(D)(iii) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``During'' and inserting the following:

       ``(I) In general.--During''; and

       (2) by adding at the end the following:

       ``(II) Business concerns employing essential critical 
     infrastructure workers.--

       ``(aa) Definition.--In this subclause, the term `critical 
     infrastructure business concern' means a business concern 
     that--
       ``(AA) employs 1 or more essential critical infrastructure 
     workers (as defined in guidance from the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security);
       ``(BB) employs not more than 500 employees per physical 
     location of the business concern; and
       ``(CC) has operations that, if organized as a separate 
     business entity, would be assigned a North American Industry 
     Classification System code beginning with 72 at the time of 
     the disbursal.
       ``(bb) Eligibility.--During the covered period, any 
     critical infrastructure business concern shall be eligible to 
     receive a covered loan.
       ``(cc) Application of loan and forgiveness requirements.--
     For purposes of determining the loan amount and applying all 
     other requirements and terms under this paragraph or section 
     1106 of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9005) with respect to a 
     critical infrastructure business concern, the eligible 
     recipient of the covered loan shall be that portion of the 
     critical infrastructure business concern that, if organized 
     as a separate business entity, would be assigned a North 
     American Industry Classification System code beginning with 
     72.''.
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