Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 5, at 11:15 AM ET, the Senate Small Business Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the agenda included below. Notably, the Committee will be voting to advance the nomination of Sen. Kelly Loeffler to be SBA Administrator out of Committee. Loeffler still will require a vote by the full Senate for confirmation. In addition, there are four additional bills that the Committee will be voting on before sending to the full Senate for consideration. These bills are listed and linked below, with a brief desc ription of each piece of legislation. The Committee’s meeting can be viewed (live or any time after it has started) here: Senate SBC Business Meeting, February 5
Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Business Meeting Agenda for February 5:
– Nomination of The Honorable Kelly Loeffler to be Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
– Resolution Authorizing Expenditures by the Committee during the 119th Congress
– Committee Rules
– S. 68 Complete COVID Collections Act [Prohibits the suspension of collections on loans under $100,0000 related to COVID–19, including the PPP; Extends time for the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery; Extends fraud enforcement timelines for specific COVID-19 programs )
– S. 273 Small Business Child Care Investment Act (Qualifies nonprofit child care business to be eligible for a 7(a) and 504 loans)
– S. 298 Returning SBA to Main Street Act (Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to SBA headquarters to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area)
– S. 300 Disaster Loan Accountability and Reform Act (Creates monthly disaster loan report requirements, funding request requirements, limitations on SBA regulations that may not be issued by SBA to increase costs of disaster loans, and other measures aimed to improve accountability in the disaster loan program )
