S. 4446: Tribal Business Access to PPP Act

116th Congress · introduced 2020-08-05 · Commerce · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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Where it came from: introduced 2020-08-05 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

Tribal Business Access to PPP Act

Plain summary

Tribal Business Access to PPP Act This bill modifies the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), by waiving affiliation rules that prevent certain tribal business concerns from being eligible to participate in the program. Affiliation rules govern which business entities are counted for the purpose of determining the size of a business, and affiliation occurs when multiple separate businesses are aggregated under one employer identification number and their employees or revenues are combined and counted together.

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Official text

Tribal Business Access to PPP Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] · 2 cosponsors

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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] reported raising $226,248 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s4446.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>

Record fed-us-cong116-s4446 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116