Amendment adds four stipulations to the Small Business Lending Fund to safeguard small businesses in the bill: 1) provides a definition of what constitutes a small business in order to ensure that funds are properly lent; 2) links lending incentives to volume in order to open up the credit markets to every qualified small business; 3) sets a hardened baseline when measuring a bank's lending record; and 4) includes small business lending companies with less than $10 billion in assets as qualified financial institutions alongside community banks and small credit unions.

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Amendment Number
695
Description
Amendment adds four stipulations to the Small Business Lending Fund to safeguard small businesses in the bill: 1) provides a definition of what constitutes a small business in order to ensure that funds are properly lent; 2) links lending incentives to volume in order to open up the credit markets to every qualified small business; 3) sets a hardened baseline when measuring a bank's lending record; and 4) includes small business lending companies with less than $10 billion in assets as qualified financial institutions alongside community banks and small credit unions.
Purpose
An amendment numbered 3 printed in part C of House Report 111-506 to add four stipulations to the Small Business Lending Fund to safeguard small businesses in the bill: 1) base SBLF incentives on number of loans an institution makes, not just the total dollars of loans; 2) include Small Business Lending Centers with less than $10 billion in assets as qualified financial institutions to participate in the SBLF; 3) add the SBA definition to define what a small business is; and 4) change the base lending amount from a comparison of the fourth quarter of 2009, to a full year of data.
Congress
111
Type
HAMDT
Latest Action Date
Jun 16, 2010
Latest Action Text
On agreeing to the Nye amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.
Latest Action Time
11:43:51
Submitted Date
Jun 16, 2010
Chamber
House of Representatives
Update Date
Jul 11, 2021
Amendment 695 — Informed