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H.R. 6569, Rural Health Relief Act

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H. R. 6569 was introduced in the House of Representatives on April 21, 2020 by Mr. Smith of Nebraska and referred to the Committee on Small Business. The bill may be cited as the Rural Health Relief Act. Section 2 amends the Small Business Act to define a covered hospital as a public hospital that is owned or operated by a State or local government. It then inserts covered hospital into the Paycheck Protection Program eligibility provisions of subparagraph (D), in clauses (i), (v) and (vi).

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                                                                       116TH CONGRESS
                                                                          2D SESSION
                                                                                                             H. R. 6569
                                                                             To provide that certain public hospitals are eligible for loans under the
                                                                                     Paycheck Protection Program, and for other purposes.




                                                                                     IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                                                   APRIL 21, 2020
                                                                       Mr. SMITH of Nebraska (for himself, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, and Mr.
                                                                           ARRINGTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                                                                           Committee on Small Business




                                                                                                                 A BILL
                                                                       To provide that certain public hospitals are eligible for loans
                                                                          under the Paycheck Protection Program, 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 ‘‘Rural Health Relief
                                                                         5 Act’’.




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                                                                         1     SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS FOR LOANS

                                                                         2                             UNDER THE PAYCHECK PROTECTION PRO-

                                                                         3                             GRAM.

                                                                         4              Section 7(a)(36) of the Small Business Act (15
                                                                         5 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)) is amended—
                                                                         6                        (1) in subparagraph (A)—
                                                                         7                                 (A) by redesignating clauses (ii) through
                                                                         8                        (ix) as clauses (iii) through (x), respectively;
                                                                         9                        and
                                                                       10                                  (B) by inserting after clause (i) the fol-
                                                                       11                         lowing:
                                                                       12                                          ‘‘(ii) the term ‘covered hospital’ means
                                                                       13                                  a public hospital that is owned or operated
                                                                       14                                  by a State or local government;’’; and
                                                                       15                         (2) in subparagraph (D)—
                                                                       16                                  (A) in the subparagraph heading, by in-
                                                                       17                         serting ‘‘, HOSPITALS,’’ after ‘‘BUSINESSES’’;
                                                                       18                                  (B) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘covered
                                                                       19                         hospital,’’ after ‘‘veterans organization,’’ each
                                                                       20                         place that term appears;
                                                                       21                                  (C) in clause (v), by inserting ‘‘covered
                                                                       22                         hospital,’’ after ‘‘veterans organization,’’; and
                                                                       23                                  (D) in clause (vi), by striking ‘‘organiza-
                                                                       24                         tion and’’ and inserting ‘‘organization, a cov-




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                                                                       25                         ered hospital, and’’.
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