HB 2282 — small business assistance grants

HB2282 - 551R - SH Ver       SenateHouse Engrossed House Bill   small business assistance grants (now:        State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session     HOUSE BILL 2282       AN ACT   amending Title 41, chapter 10, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-1506.02;

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antisemitism)         State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session       HOUSE BILL 2282       AN ACT   amending Title 15, chapter 7, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-701.02;

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Title 15,41, chapter 7,10, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-701.02,41-1506.02, to read:

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definition A.

The small business assistance relief fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations from monies allocated to this state from the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security act (P.L. 116-136) and deposited in the state general fund to provide grants to small businesses negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The authority shall administer the fund.  Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated.

B.

An eligible small business, including any of the following, may apply to the authority for a small business assistance grant:

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4.

A Tribal small business.

5.

A Cooperative and employee owned business.

C.

Small businesses with twenty-five or fewer employees that operated in this state before January 1, 2020 and that provide evidence of business closure as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may apply to the authority for a small business assistance grant.  Closed small businesses applying for a grant shall provide to the authority plans to reopen.

D.

The authority shall award grants in the amount of not more than $5,000.

The authority shall allocate at least thirty percent of the monies in the small business assistance relief fund to small businesses that are located in counties with a population of less than nine hundred thousand persons.

E.

An eligible small business or a small business as prescribed in subsection C of this section shall apply to the authority, on a form prescribed by the authority, on or before December 31, 2021 To receive monies from the small business assistance relief fund.

The application must include:

1.

The name of the business.

2.

The number of employees of the business at the time of application.

3.

THe date the business was organized.

4.

OTher information required by the authority to determine the financial impact on the business resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

F.

THe authority shall review the applications submitted on or before December 31, and, when awarding grants, shall give priority to eligible small Businesses that have not received financial assistance from any federal program.  If there are monies remaining in the small business assistance relief fund after the authority awards grants to small businesses that applied on or before December 31, 2021, the authority shall extend the application deadline to allow additional businesses to apply.