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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jul 20, 2010
SBA Disaster Loan Relief Act of 2010 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue regulations providing for the refinancing or consolidation, during the period beginning on April 22, 2010, and ending 180 days after the last date on which the SBA makes a loan to any person directly affected by the discharge of oil arising from the explosion on and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, of any SBA disaster loan made to such person.
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Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3] · D–LA
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Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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