Abortion Providers Loan Elimination Act

Abortion Providers Loan Elimination Act

This bill modifies the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), by making any individual or entity that provides abortions ineligible to receive a paycheck protection loan. An exception is allowed for abortions performed at hospitals or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or endangers the life of the mother.

The Inspector General of the Small Business Administration must investigate and report on the number of paycheck protection loans made to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other individuals or entities that provide abortions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7792 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7792

  To amend the Small Business Act to prohibit abortion providers from 
receiving a covered loan under the paycheck protection program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2020

   Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Mooney of West 
    Virginia, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Latta, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Allen, Mr. 
 Griffith, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. Watkins, Mr. Duncan, Mr. 
   Aderholt, Mr. Murphy of North Carolina, Mr. Budd, Mr. Kustoff of 
 Tennessee, Mr. David P. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. 
Abraham, Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mr. John W. Rose of Tennessee, Mr. 
 King of Iowa, and Mr. Hice of Georgia) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Small Business Act to prohibit abortion providers from 
receiving a covered loan under the paycheck protection program, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Abortion Providers Loan Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 
        (Public Law 116-136) disqualified affiliations from applying 
        for and receiving loans through the paycheck protection 
        program.
            (2) Section 7(a)(36)(D)(vi) of the Small Business Act (15 
        U.S.C. 7(a)(36)(D)(vi)), as added by the Coronavirus Aid, 
        Relief, and Economic Security Act, established that affiliation 
        rules apply to nonprofits for the purpose of determining 
        whether a nonprofit has 500 or fewer employees.
            (3) Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a national 
        organization with central control over its affiliates and which 
        has nearly $2,000,000,000 in assets and 16,000 employees, 
        improperly applied for, and received $80,000,000 in loans 
        through the paycheck protection program.

SEC. 3. PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 7(a)(36) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 636(a)(36)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(T) Prohibition on covered loans for abortion 
                providers.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Except as provided in 
                        clause (ii), no individual or entity that 
                        provides abortions shall be eligible to receive 
                        a covered loan.
                            ``(ii) Exceptions.--Clause (i) shall not 
                        apply to--
                                    ``(I) a hospital, as defined in 
                                section 1861(e) of the Social Security 
                                Act; or
                                    ``(II) an entity that exclusively 
                                provides abortions described in section 
                                507(a) of the Further Consolidated 
                                Appropriations Act, 2020.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall be 
effective as if included in the enactment of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116-136).

SEC. 4. INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT.

    Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration shall 
conduct an investigation and submit to Congress a report on the number 
of covered loans made to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America 
pursuant to section 7(a)(36) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
636(a)(36)) and to other individuals or entitities that provide 
abortions.
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