S.Amdt. 2607

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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