H.R. 6781 – Paycheck Protection Program Improved Coordination Act of 2020

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The Paycheck Protection Program Improved Coordination Act of 2020 updates the CARES Act so that businesses receiving PPP loans and claiming the employee retention tax credit don’t double‑count the same payroll costs. It clarifies how qualified wages are treated for loan forgiveness and the tax credit, and it directs the Treasury and SBA to issue guidance on the coordination. The changes affect eligible employers, particularly small businesses that took PPP loans and are eligible for the credit.

Key Provisions

Amends the PPP definition in the CARES Act to exclude qualified wages that are used to calculate the employee retention tax credit from the loan forgiveness calculation.
Allows an eligible employer to elect not to include certain qualified wages in the employee retention tax credit, preventing double‑dipping with PPP funds.
Directs the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the SBA Administrator, to issue guidance ensuring payroll costs paid during the covered period are not disqualified from the credit if a PPP loan is not forgiven.
Makes conforming changes to the employee retention tax credit provisions, including striking and renumbering subsections to align with the new coordination rules.
Specifies that the amendments take effect as if they were originally part of the CARES Act provisions they modify.

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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Ways and Means Committee

May 8, 2020

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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Ways and Means Committee

May 8, 2020

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Introduced in HouseIssued May 8, 2020

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116th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 6781

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 8, 2020

Mr. Pappas (for himself, Mr. Hagedorn, and Mrs. Murphy of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To provide for improved coordination between the paycheck protection program and the employee retention tax credit.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Paycheck Protection Program Improved Coordination Act of 2020.

2.

Improved coordination between paycheck protection program and employee retention tax credit

(a)

Amendment to paycheck protection program

Section 1106(a)(8) of the CARES Act is amended by inserting , except that such costs shall not include qualified wages taken into account in determining the credit allowed under section 2301 of this Act before the period at the end.

(b)

Amendments to employee retention tax credit

(1)

In general

Section 2301(g) of the CARES Act is amended to read as follows:

(g)

Election To not take certain wages into account

(1)

In general

This section shall not apply to qualified wages paid by an eligible employer with respect to which such employer makes an election (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe) to have this section not apply to such wages.

(2)

Coordination with paycheck protection program

The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, shall issue guidance providing that payroll costs paid or incurred during the covered period shall not fail to be treated as qualified wages under this section by reason of an election under paragraph (1) to the extent that a covered loan of the eligible employer is not forgiven by reason of a decision under section 1106(g). Terms used in the preceding sentence which are also used in section 1106 shall have the same meaning as when used in such section.

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(2)

Conforming amendments

(A)

Section 2301 of the CARES Act is amended by striking subsection (j).

(B)

Section 2301(l) of the CARES Act is amended by striking paragraph (3) and by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively.

(c)

Effective date

The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the provisions of the CARES Act to which they relate.