To amend the Small Business Act to modify application deadlines and communication requirements for certain disaster assistance, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3556 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3556

  To amend the Small Business Act to modify application deadlines and 
  communication requirements for certain disaster assistance, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2025

Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. Edwards) 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 modify application deadlines and 
  communication requirements for certain disaster assistance, 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. MODIFICATION TO APPLICATION DEADLINES AND COMMUNICATION 
              REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

    Section 7(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``correspond with 
                        application deadlines'' and inserting ``end on 
                        the date that is 60 days after any application 
                        deadlines that are''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``, or as'' and inserting 
                        ``or that are'';
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraphs:
                    ``(C) Late applications.--The Administrator may 
                accept an application for disaster relief relating to a 
                major disaster under this paragraph at any time after 
                the deadline in subparagraph (A) if the applicant 
                demonstrates good cause for the late submission.''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (B), in the matter preceding 
                clause (i), by striking ``and the Committee on Small 
                Business of the House of Representatives'' and 
                inserting ``, the Committee on Small Business of the 
                House of Representatives, and each office of a Member 
                of Congress that represents a district in which a major 
                disaster has occurred''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5), in the matter preceding subparagraph 
        (A), by inserting ``and to communicate to each office of a 
        Member of Congress that represents a district in which a major 
        disaster has occurred,'' after ``web-based outlets,''.
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