United States HR 6301: SBA Reaching all Communities Act of 2020

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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 6301
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to provide
resources and services to small business concerns in languages other
than English, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 19, 2020
Ms. JUDY CHU of California introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Small Business
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Adminis-
tration to provide resources and services to small busi-
ness concerns in languages other than English, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SBA Reaching all 4
Communities Act of 2020’’. 5
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SEC. 2. RESOURCES AND SERVICES IN LANGUAGES OTHER 1
THAN ENGLISH. 2
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Small 3
Business Administration shall provide resources and serv-4
ices to small business concerns (as defined under section 5
3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632)) in the 10 6
most commonly spoken languages, other than English, in 7
the United States, which shall include Mandarin, Can-8
tonese, Japanese, and Korean. 9
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 10
authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the 11
Small Business Administration $25,000,000 to carry out 12
this section. 13
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