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4/18/2007--Passed House amended. Relief for Entrepreneurs: Coordination of Objectives and Values for Effective Recovery Act of 2007 or RECOVER Act - Title I: Planning - (Sec. 101) Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive written disaster plan, which shall include, among other things, a description of disasters most likely to occur in each SBA region as well as an assessment of the needs to respond to each disaster. Requires the plan to be: (1) completed within 180 days after enactment of this Act; and (2) updated annually and following any incident of national significance (significant incident). Directs the Administrator to report to the congressional small business committees with respect to each update. (Sec. 102) Directs the Administrator to: (1) conduct a disaster simulation exercise at least once each fiscal year; and (2) report to the small business committees with respect to each exercise. (Sec. 103) Requires: (1) the Administrator to maintain a disaster reserve corps of at least 1,000 individuals to perform functions related to disaster response; (2) each such individual to be appropriately trained; and (3) the Administrator to report to the small business committees with respect to the corps. (Sec. 104) Directs the Administrator to: (1) develop long-term plans to secure additional office space to accommodate an expanded workforce in times of disaster; and (2) report such plans to the small business committees. (Sec. 105) Requires the Administrator to ensure that SBA disaster programs are coordinated, to the maximum extent practicable, with the disaster assistance programs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Requires a report from the Administrator to the small business committees concerning SBA regulations to ensure that each application for SBA disaster assistance is submitted to the SBA as quickly as practicable or directed to the appropriate agency. (Sec. 106) Establishes in the SBA an Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance to: (1) develop and implement the SBA's plans for disaster response; and (2) direct the SBA's training exercises with respect to disasters. Establishes a Director for Disaster Lending to direct all aspects of the SBA's disaster lending program. Title II: Lending - (Sec. 201) Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) provide disaster loans to certain private nonprofit organizations with respect to a significant incident; (2) make or guarantee a mitigation loan to a small business for damage or destruction due to a significant incident; and (3) provide or make such loans for FY2006 with respect to a nonprofit or small business located, as of August 28, 2005, in an area affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma. (Sec. 202) Directs the Administrator to: (1) develop, implement, and maintain a centralized information system to track communications between SBA personnel and applicants for disaster assistance; and (2) ensure that each applicant receives follow-up communications from the SBA at all critical stages of the application process. (Sec. 203) Requires the Administrator to carry out an Immediate Disaster Assistance program under which the SBA participates on a deferred basis in 85% of the balance of financing of a loan less than or equal to $25,000 for a business affected by a disaster. (Sec. 204) Authorizes the Administrator, in making disaster mitigation loans, to provide to the recipient an option to defer loan repayment for up to four years. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring repayment until 12 months after the final loan disbursement is made. (Sec. 206) Provides a process for the SBA disbursement of disaster mitigation loans, with separate processes for loans: (1) of up to $150,000; (2) from $150,000 to $500,000; and (3) greater than $500,000. (Sec. 207) Prohibits the Administrator, in making a business disaster mitigation loan of $100,000 or less, from requiring the borrower to use the borrower's home as collateral. (Sec. 208) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a program to permit banks and other financial institutions to process, approve, close, and service disaster loans for a fee of up to 2% of the total loan amount. Allows such program during any period: (1) of a significant incident; or (2) which the average time for the SBA to approve disaster loans in response to any single disaster is 30 days or more. (Sec. 209) Directs the Administrator to ensure that SBA has in place a facility for disaster loan processing that, whenever the SBA's primary processing facility becomes unavailable, is able to take over such processing within two days. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 210) Authorizes the Administrator to make grants of up to $100,000 to small businesses located in disaster areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma that experienced specified housing and/or infrastructure losses, upon such businesses' certification to reestablish in the same areas. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 211) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a program under which the Administrator makes grants to individuals who: (1) are victims of a declared disaster; (2) receive disaster assistance because of that disaster; (3) receive disaster benefits other than the SBA assistance; and (4) are required to remit those benefits to the SBA because of a duplication of benefits. Permits grants to be up to the amount required to be remitted by the individual. (Sec. 212) Increases from $1.5 million to $3 million the maximum disaster loan limit for individual borrowers. (Sec. 213) Prohibits the Administrator, in making disaster loans, from requiring the borrower to pay any non-amortized amount for the first five years after repayment begins. (Sec. 214) Authorizes the Administrator to make economic injury disaster loans to private nonprofit organizations. (Sec. 215) Allows the $3 million maximum disaster loan limit to be waived in the case of applicants that will constitute a major source of employment due to changed economic circumstances. (Sec. 216) Increases from 90 days to one year after an essential employee of a small business is released or discharged from active duty after required military service the period during which the affected small business may apply for economic injury assistance due to such employee's absence. Allows the Administrator, when appropriate, to waive such limit and provide a later ending date. Directs the Administrator to establish a process under which such a business may file a preliminary application for such assistance before the date on which the employee is ordered to active duty. (Sec. 217) Authorizes the Administrator to provide economic injury disaster loans under circumstances caused by ice storms and blizzards. (Sec. 218) Requires a report from the Administrator to the small business committees concerning the SBA's ability to provide disaster loans to small businesses that depend on high snowfall and sustain economic injury due to a lack of snowfall. (Sec. 219) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a program to refinance Gulf Coast disaster loans by providing an option to defer loan repayment by up to four years after the original loan disbursement was made. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Oversight - (Sec. 301) Requires, 45 days after the end of each fiscal year, a report from the Administrator to the small business committees on SBA disaster assistance operations for that fiscal year. Requires, during the period of a significant incident, the Administrator to report, on a monthly basis, on SBA disaster assistance operations with respect to that incident.<br/>

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Gene Taylor [D, MS-4] 1698 N00003350 8387 Democrat 202-225-5772 Roman Catholic MS Gene Taylor 5.2 http://www.house.gov/genetaylor/ calendar 41689 1186113600 Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 -0500 2007 128987 Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 334. action 41689 1176955200 Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115514 Received in the Senate. action 41689 1176927240 Wed Apr 18 17:14:00 -0500 2007 108681 The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 1361. vote 41689 1176926100 Wed Apr 18 16:55:00 -0500 2007 roll 108680 pass On passage Passed by recorded vote: 267 - 158 (Roll no. 225). vote h action 41689 1176925620 Wed Apr 18 16:47:00 -0500 2007 108679 On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 204 - 218 (Roll no. 224). action 41689 1176924480 Wed Apr 18 16:28:00 -0500 2007 108678 The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. action 41689 1176924060 Wed Apr 18 16:21:00 -0500 2007 152602 DEBATE - The House proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions on H.R. 1361. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill report the same back to the House with an amendment that says if a person or small business is convicted of a crime under the Federal or State law, the person or small business shall not receive assistance under the Small Business Act. action 41689 1176923880 Wed Apr 18 16:18:00 -0500 2007 108677 Mr. McHenry moved to recommit with instructions to Small Business. action 41689 1176923820 Wed Apr 18 16:17:00 -0500 2007 108675 The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. action 41689 1176923820 Wed Apr 18 16:17:00 -0500 2007 108676 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. action 41689 1176923760 Wed Apr 18 16:16:00 -0500 2007 108674 The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1361. action 41689 1176921180 Wed Apr 18 15:33:00 -0500 2007 152601 DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 302, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jindal amendment. action 41689 1176921060 Wed Apr 18 15:31:00 -0500 2007 152600 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Chabot amendment numbered 2, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Chabot demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day. action 41689 1176920580 Wed Apr 18 15:23:00 -0500 2007 152599 DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 302, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Chabot amendment numbered 2. action 41689 1176920520 Wed Apr 18 15:22:00 -0500 2007 152598 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Chabot amendment numbered 1, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced the noes had prevailed. Mr. Chabot demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day. action 41689 1176919800 Wed Apr 18 15:10:00 -0500 2007 152597 DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 302, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Chabot amendment numbered 1. action 41689 1176917160 Wed Apr 18 14:26:00 -0500 2007 152596 GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 1361. action 41689 1176917100 Wed Apr 18 14:25:00 -0500 2007 108672 House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 302 and Rule XVIII. action 41689 1176917100 Wed Apr 18 14:25:00 -0500 2007 152595 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1361 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Small Business now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. action 41689 1176917100 Wed Apr 18 14:25:00 -0500 2007 108673 The Speaker designated the Honorable Artur Davis to act as Chairman of the Committee. action 41689 1176917100 Wed Apr 18 14:25:00 -0500 2007 108671 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 302. action 41689 1176914340 Wed Apr 18 13:39:00 -0500 2007 108670 Rule H. Res. 302 passed House. action 41689 1176845520 Tue Apr 17 18:32:00 -0500 2007 108669 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 302 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1361 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Small Business now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. action 41689 1175264520 Fri Mar 30 11:22:00 -0500 2007 106080 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 110-82. calendar 41689 1175264520 Fri Mar 30 11:22:00 -0500 2007 106081 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 47. action 41689 1173931200 Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 -0500 2007 106079 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 9. calendar 41689 1173931200 Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 -0500 2007 121076 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 9. action 41689 1173931200 Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 -0500 2007 106078 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. introduced 41689 1173157200 Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 -0600 2007 95466 action 41689 1173157200 Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 -0600 2007 95467 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. 8 267 41689 Wed Apr 18 15:55:00 -0500 2007 true 3583 158 225 73 0 On Passage: H R 1361 Relief for Entrepreneurs: Coordination of Objectives and Values for Effective Recovery Act false 1/2 Passed On Passage Thu Sep 13 09:31:18 -0500 2007 house 11 204 41689 Wed Apr 18 15:47:00 -0500 2007 false 3043 218 224 27 0 On Motion to Recommit with Instructions: H R 1361 Relief for Entrepreneurs: Coordination of Objectives and Values for Effective Recovery Act true 1/2 Failed On Motion to Recommit with Instructions Thu Sep 13 09:30:41 -0500 2007 house 12 174 41689 Wed Apr 18 15:16:00 -0500 2007 false 3896 252 223 39 0 On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 2 to H R 1361 true 1/2 Failed On Agreeing to the Amendment Thu Sep 13 09:30:03 -0500 2007 house 14 178 41689 Wed Apr 18 15:05:00 -0500 2007 false 3722 246 222 22 0 On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 1 to H R 1361 true 1/2 Failed On Agreeing to the Amendment Thu Sep 13 09:29:27 -0500 2007 house