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Bill - COVID-19 EIDL Fraud Statute of Limitations Act of 2022 (Luetkemeyer, Velázquez)

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This is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 2d Session, by Mr. Luetkemeyer (for himself and Ms. Velázquez). Its stated purpose is to extend the statute of limitations for fraud by borrowers under certain COVID-19 economic injury disaster loan programs of the Small Business Administration. Section 1 gives the short title COVID-19 EIDL Fraud Statute of Limitations Act of 2022. Section 2 amends the Small Business Act and the CARES Act, and adds a subsection to section 331 of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses Act, so that any criminal charge or civil enforcement action alleging borrower fraud shall be filed not later than 10 years after the offense was committed.

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4238 2022 04 01 Chairwoman Vel Zquez Ranking Member Luetkemeyer In Att1
Date
2022-04-01
Case
4238 2022 04 01 Chairwoman Vel Zquez Ranking Member Luetkemeyer In Att1

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“Bill - COVID-19 EIDL Fraud Statute of Limitations Act of 2022 (Luetkemeyer, Velázquez).” Dated 2022-04-01. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2022-04-01-4238-2022-04-01-chairwoman-vel-zquez-ranking-member-luetkemeyer-in-att1/, SHA-256 3f57d529808a181f3b154ace5b2feb998eb26b7d60e7e5e63584c1168dd5cd96.

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                                                                                                        (Original Signature of Member)



                                                                      H. R. ll
                               117TH CONGRESS
                                  2D SESSION


                               To extend the statute of limitations for fraud by borrowers under certain
                                   COVID–19 economic injury disaster loan programs of the Small Business
                                   Administration, and for other purposes




                                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                               Mr. LUETKEMEYER (for himself and Ms. VELÁZQUEZ) introduced the fol-
                                   lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on
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                                                                         A BILL
                               To extend the statute of limitations for fraud by borrowers
                                  under certain COVID–19 economic injury disaster loan
                                  programs of the Small Business Administration, and for
                                  other purposes

                                 1              Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
                                 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
                                 3     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

                                 4              This Act may be cited as the ‘‘COVID–19 EIDL
                                 5 Fraud Statute of Limitations Act of 2022’’



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                                 1     SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CER-

                                 2                             TAIN COVID–19 ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER

                                 3                             LOAN PROGRAMS.

                                 4              (a) CERTAIN ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER LOANS.—
                                 5 Section 7(b) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(b))
                                 6 is amended by inserting after paragraph (15) the following
                                 7 new paragraph:
                                 8                        ‘‘(16) STATUTE                      OF      LIMITATIONS.—Notwith-

                                 9              standing any other provision of law, any criminal
                               10               charge or civil enforcement action alleging that a
                               11               borrower engaged in fraud with respect to a loan
                               12               made under this subsection in response to COVID–
                               13               19 during the covered period (as defined in section
                               14               1110(a) of the CARES Act) shall be filed not later
                               15               than 10 years after the offense was committed.’’.
                               16               (b) EIDL ADVANCES.—Section 1110(e) of the
                               17 CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9009(e)) is amended by adding
                               18 at the end the following new paragraph:
                               19                         ‘‘(9)       STATUTE                 OF      LIMITATIONS.—Notwith-

                               20               standing any other provision of law, any criminal
                               21               charge or civil enforcement action alleging that a
                               22               borrower engaged in fraud with respect to the use
                               23               of an advance received under this subsection shall be
                               24               filed not later than 10 years after the offense was
                               25               committed.’’.


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                                 1              (c) TARGETED EIDL ADVANCES.—Section 331 of
                                 2 the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Non-
                                 3 profits, and Venues Act (15 U.S.C. 9009b) is amended
                                 4 by adding at the end the following new subsection:
                                 5              ‘‘(i) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.—Notwithstanding
                                 6 any other provision of law, any criminal charge or civil
                                 7 enforcement action alleging that a borrower engaged in
                                 8 fraud with respect to the use of any amount received pur-
                                 9 suant to this section shall be filed not later than 10 years
                               10 after the offense was committed.’’.




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