Congressional Record, Senate (Aug. 6, 2020): SA 2607, Ms. Ernst's amendment to SA 2499 to S. 178

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Senate amendment SA 2607, submitted by Ms. Ernst and printed in the Congressional Record, Volume 166, Number 140, for Thursday, August 6, 2020, at Page S5303. It was intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2499, offered by Mr. McConnell to S. 178, a bill on human rights violations in Xinjiang, and was ordered to lie on the table. Under the heading Businesses Employing Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers, it would amend Section 7(a)(36)(D)(iii) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 636(a)(36)(D)(iii), the per-location rule for businesses with a North American Industry Classification System code beginning with 72, to add a critical infrastructure business concern: one that employs 1 or more essential critical infrastructure workers as defined in guidance from the Secretary of Homeland Security and not more than 500 employees per physical location.

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[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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