S 1703
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Requires the Small Business Administrator to ensure that rural residents in federally declared disasters have full access to SBA disaster assistance, including targeted outreach, and renumbers a duplicate paragraph in the Small Business Act.
Official title: Rural Small Business Resilience Act
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Senate
Introduced
08-MAY-2025
Referred
08-MAY-2025
Approved by committee
16-JUL-2025
Reported
29-JUL-2025
On the calendar
29-JUL-2025
- Requires the SBA Administrator to act within 1 year of enactment so individuals in rural areas with a declared disaster can fully access assistance under section 7(b) of the Small Business Act.
- Directs targeted outreach and marketing materials to those individuals.
- Redesignates the second paragraph (16), which concerns the statute of limitations, in section 7(b) of the Small Business Act as paragraph (17).
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