S. 1546 · 114th Congress
Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015
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The bill also amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA to establish a program to provide insurance for the exports of small businesses, including insurance against nonpayment by international buyers.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jun 10, 2015
Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015
This bill declares that it is the policy of this Act:
- that, should the statutory authority for the export loan programs administered by the Export-Import Bank of the United States lapse, the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall serve the Bank's small business clients under existing statutory authority of the Small Business Act;
- to create an SBA Export Credit Insurance Program similar to the Bank's; and
- to ensure that small business exporters are served by SBA programs.
The bill also amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA to establish a program to provide insurance for the exports of small businesses, including insurance against nonpayment by international buyers.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Ensuring Small Businesses Can Export Act of 2015
Latest action (Jun 10, 2015): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Policy area: Commerce · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jun 10, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.