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44 STSESSION H. R. 580
55 To establish a small business and domestic production recovery investment
66 facility, and for other purposes.
77 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
88 JANUARY26, 2023
99 Ms. T
1010 ENNEYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
1111 Committee on Small Business
1212 A BILL
1313 To establish a small business and domestic production
1414 recovery investment facility, and for other purposes.
1515 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1616 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1717 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
1818 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Innovation 4
1919 and Manufacturing Act’’. 5
2020 SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT COMPANY PRO-6
2121 GRAM. 7
2222 (a) I
2323 NGENERAL.—Part A of title III of the Small 8
2424 Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 681 et seq.) 9
2525 is amended— 10
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2929 (1) in section 302(a)(1) (15 U.S.C. 1
3030 682(a)(1))— 2
3131 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘or’’ 3
3232 at the end; 4
3333 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 5
3434 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 6
3535 (C) by adding at the end the following: 7
3636 ‘‘(C) $20,000,000, adjusted every 5 years 8
3737 for inflation, with respect to each licensee au-9
3838 thorized or seeking authority to sell bonds to 10
3939 Administration as a participating investment 11
4040 company under section 321.’’; and 12
4141 (2) by adding at the end the following: 13
4242 ‘‘SEC. 321. SMALL BUSINESS AND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION 14
4343 RECOVERY INVESTMENT FACILITY. 15
4444 ‘‘(a) D
4545 EFINITIONS.—In this section: 16
4646 ‘‘(1) E
4747 LIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN .— 17
4848 The term ‘eligible small business concern’— 18
4949 ‘‘(A) means a small business concern that 19
5050 is a manufacturing business that is assigned a 20
5151 North American Industry Classification System 21
5252 code beginning with 31, 32, or 33 at the time 22
5353 at which the small business concern receives an 23
5454 investment from a participating investment 24
5555 company under the facility; and 25
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5959 ‘‘(B) does not include an entity described 1
6060 in section 7(a)(37)(A)(iv)(III) of the Small 2
6161 Business Act (15 U.S.C. 3
6262 636(a)(37)(A)(iv)(III)). 4
6363 ‘‘(2) F
6464 ACILITY.—The term ‘facility’ means the 5
6565 facility established under subsection (b). 6
6666 ‘‘(3) F
6767 UND.—The term ‘Fund’ means the fund 7
6868 established under subsection (h). 8
6969 ‘‘(4) P
7070 ARTICIPATING INVESTMENT COMPANY .— 9
7171 The term ‘participating investment company’ means 10
7272 a small business investment company approved 11
7373 under subsection (d) to participate in the facility. 12
7474 ‘‘(5) P
7575 ROTE´GE´INVESTMENT COMPANY .—The 13
7676 term ‘prote´ge´investment company’ means a small 14
7777 business investment company that— 15
7878 ‘‘(A) is majority managed by new, inexperi-16
7979 enced, or otherwise underrepresented fund man-17
8080 agers; and 18
8181 ‘‘(B) elects and is selected by the Adminis-19
8282 tration to participate in the pathway-prote´ge´ 20
8383 program under subsection (g). 21
8484 ‘‘(6) S
8585 MALL BUSINESS CONCERN .—The term 22
8686 ‘small business concern’ has the meaning given the 23
8787 term in section 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 24
8888 U.S.C. 632(a)). 25
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9292 ‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.— 1
9393 ‘‘(1) F
9494 ACILITY.—The Administrator shall estab-2
9595 lish and carry out a facility to increase resiliency in 3
9696 the manufacturing supply chain of eligible small 4
9797 business concerns by providing financial assistance 5
9898 to participating investment companies that facilitate 6
9999 equity financings to eligible small business concerns 7
100100 in accordance with this section. 8
101101 ‘‘(2) A
102102 DMINISTRATION OF FACILITY .—The fa-9
103103 cility shall be administered by the Administrator act-10
104104 ing through the Associate Administrator described in 11
105105 section 201. 12
106106 ‘‘(c) A
107107 PPLICATIONS.— 13
108108 ‘‘(1) I
109109 N GENERAL.—Any small business invest-14
110110 ment company may submit to the Administrator an 15
111111 application to participate in the facility. 16
112112 ‘‘(2) R
113113 EQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION .—An 17
114114 application to participate in the facility shall include 18
115115 the following: 19
116116 ‘‘(A) A business plan describing how the 20
117117 applicant intends to make successful equity in-21
118118 vestments in eligible small business concerns. 22
119119 ‘‘(B) Information regarding the relevant 23
120120 investment qualifications and backgrounds of 24
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124124 the individuals responsible for the management 1
125125 of the applicant. 2
126126 ‘‘(C) A description of the extent to which 3
127127 the applicant meets the selection criteria under 4
128128 subsection (d)(2). 5
129129 ‘‘(3) E
130130 XCEPTIONS TO APPLICATION FOR NEW 6
131131 LICENSEES.—Not later than 90 days after the date 7
132132 of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall 8
133133 reduce requirements for applicants applying to oper-9
134134 ate as a participating investment company under 10
135135 this section in order to encourage the participation 11
136136 of new small business investment companies in the 12
137137 facility under this section, which may include the re-13
138138 quirements established under part 107 of title 13, 14
139139 Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regu-15
140140 lation, relating to— 16
141141 ‘‘(A) the approval of initial management 17
142142 expenses; 18
143143 ‘‘(B) the management ownership diversity 19
144144 requirement; 20
145145 ‘‘(C) the disclosure of general compen-21
146146 satory practices and fee structures; or 22
147147 ‘‘(D) any other requirement that the Ad-23
148148 ministrator determines to be an obstacle to 24
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152152 achieving the purposes described in this para-1
153153 graph. 2
154154 ‘‘(d) S
155155 ELECTION OF PARTICIPATINGINVESTMENT 3
156156 C
157157 OMPANIES.— 4
158158 ‘‘(1) D
159159 ETERMINATION.— 5
160160 ‘‘(A) I
161161 N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 6
162162 paragraph (3), not later than 60 days after the 7
163163 date on which the Administrator receives an ap-8
164164 plication under subsection (c), the Adminis-9
165165 trator shall— 10
166166 ‘‘(i) make a final determination to ap-11
167167 prove or disapprove such applicant to par-12
168168 ticipate in the facility; and 13
169169 ‘‘(ii) transmit the determination to the 14
170170 applicant in writing. 15
171171 ‘‘(B) C
172172 OMMITMENT AMOUNT .—Except as 16
173173 provided in paragraph (3), at the time of ap-17
174174 proval of an applicant, the Administrator shall 18
175175 make a determination of the amount of the 19
176176 commitment that may be awarded to the appli-20
177177 cant under this section. 21
178178 ‘‘(2) S
179179 ELECTION CRITERIA.—In making a de-22
180180 termination under paragraph (1), the Administrator 23
181181 shall consider— 24
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185185 ‘‘(A) the probability that the investment 1
186186 strategy of the applicant will successfully repay 2
187187 any financial assistance provided by the Admin-3
188188 istration, including the probability of a return 4
189189 significantly in excess thereof; 5
190190 ‘‘(B) the probability that the investments 6
191191 made by the applicant will— 7
192192 ‘‘(i) provide capital to eligible small 8
193193 business concerns; or 9
194194 ‘‘(ii) create or preserve jobs in the 10
195195 United States; 11
196196 ‘‘(C) the probability that the applicant will 12
197197 meet the objectives in the business plan of the 13
198198 applicant, including the financial goals, and, if 14
199199 applicable, the pathway-prote´ge´program in ac-15
200200 cordance with subsection (g); and 16
201201 ‘‘(D) the probability that the applicant will 17
202202 assist eligible small business concerns in achiev-18
203203 ing profitability. 19
204204 ‘‘(3) A
205205 PPROVAL OF PARTICIPATING INVEST -20
206206 MENT COMPANIES.— 21
207207 ‘‘(A) P
208208 ROVISIONAL APPROVAL.— 22
209209 ‘‘(i) I
210210 N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 23
211211 paragraph (1), with respect to an applica-24
212212 tion submitted by an applicant to operate 25
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216216 as a participating investment company 1
217217 under this section, the Administrator may 2
218218 provide provisional approval for the appli-3
219219 cant in lieu of a final determination of ap-4
220220 proval and determination of the amount of 5
221221 the commitment under that paragraph. 6
222222 ‘‘(ii) P
223223 URPOSE.—The purpose of a 7
224224 provisional approval under clause (i) is 8
225225 to— 9
226226 ‘‘(I) encourage applications from 10
227227 investment companies with an invest-11
228228 ment mandate from the committed 12
229229 private market capital of the invest-13
230230 ment company that does not conform 14
231231 to the requirements described in this 15
232232 section at the time of application; 16
233233 ‘‘(II) allow the applicant to more 17
234234 effectively raise capital commitments 18
235235 in the private markets by referencing 19
236236 the intent of the Administrator to 20
237237 award the applicant a commitment; 21
238238 and 22
239239 ‘‘(III) allow the applicant to more 23
240240 precisely request the desired amount 24
241241 of commitment pending the securing 25
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245245 of capital from private market inves-1
246246 tors. 2
247247 ‘‘(iii) L
248248 IMIT ON PERIOD OF THE 3
249249 TIME.—The period between a provisional 4
250250 approval under clause (i) and the final de-5
251251 termination of approval under paragraph 6
252252 (1) shall not exceed 12 months. 7
253253 ‘‘(e) C
254254 OMMITMENTS AND SBIC BONDS.— 8
255255 ‘‘(1) I
256256 N GENERAL.—The Administrator may, 9
257257 out of amounts available in the Fund, purchase or 10
258258 commit to purchase from a participating investment 11
259259 company 1 or more accruing bonds that include eq-12
260260 uity features as described in this subsection. 13
261261 ‘‘(2) B
262262 OND TERMS.—A bond purchased by the 14
263263 Administrator from a participating investment com-15
264264 pany under this subsection shall have the following 16
265265 terms and conditions: 17
266266 ‘‘(A) T
267267 ERM AND INTEREST.— 18
268268 ‘‘(i) I
269269 N GENERAL.—The bond shall be 19
270270 issued for a term of not less than 15 years 20
271271 and shall bear interest at a rate deter-21
272272 mined by the Administrator of not more 22
273273 than 2 percent. 23
274274 ‘‘(ii) A
275275 CCRUAL OF INTEREST .—Inter-24
276276 est on the bond shall accrue and shall be 25
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280280 payable in accordance with subparagraph 1
281281 (D). 2
282282 ‘‘(iii) P
283283 REPAYMENT.—The bond shall 3
284284 be prepayable without penalty after the 4
285285 end of the 1-year period beginning on the 5
286286 date on which the bond was purchased. 6
287287 ‘‘(B) P
288288 ROFITS.— 7
289289 ‘‘(i) I
290290 N GENERAL.—The Administra-8
291291 tion shall be entitled to receive a share of 9
292292 the profits net of any profit sharing per-10
293293 formance compensation of the participating 11
294294 investment company equal to the quotient 12
295295 obtained by dividing— 13
296296 ‘‘(I) one-third of the commitment 14
297297 that the participating investment com-15
298298 pany is approved for under subsection 16
299299 (d); by 17
300300 ‘‘(II) the commitment approved 18
301301 under subsection (d) plus the regu-19
302302 latory capital of the participating in-20
303303 vestment company at the time of ap-21
304304 proval under that subsection. 22
305305 ‘‘(ii) D
306306 ETERMINATION OF PERCENT -23
307307 AGE.—The share to which the Administra-24
308308 tion is entitled under clause (i)— 25
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312312 ‘‘(I) shall be determined at the 1
313313 time of approval under subsection (d); 2
314314 and 3
315315 ‘‘(II) without the approval of the 4
316316 Administration, shall not be revised, 5
317317 including to reflect subsequent dis-6
318318 tributions of profits, returns of cap-7
319319 ital, or repayments of bonds, or other-8
320320 wise. 9
321321 ‘‘(C) P
322322 ROFIT SHARING PERFORMANCE 10
323323 COMPENSATION.— 11
324324 ‘‘(i) R
325325 ECEIPT BY ADMINISTRATION .— 12
326326 The Administration shall receive a share of 13
327327 profits of not more than 2 percent, which 14
328328 shall be deposited into the Fund and be 15
329329 available to make commitments under this 16
330330 subsection. 17
331331 ‘‘(ii) R
332332 ECEIPT BY MANAGERS .—The 18
333333 managers of the participating investment 19
334334 company may receive a maximum profit 20
335335 sharing performance compensation of 25 21
336336 percent minus the share of profits paid to 22
337337 the Administration under clause (i). 23
338338 ‘‘(D) P
339339 ROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTIONS .— 24
340340 No distributions on capital, including profit dis-25
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344344 tributions, shall be made by the participating 1
345345 investment company to the investors or man-2
346346 agers of the participating investment company 3
347347 until the Administration has received payment 4
348348 of all accrued interest on the bond committed 5
349349 under this section. 6
350350 ‘‘(E) R
351351 EPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL .—Except 7
352352 as described in subparagraph (F), repayments 8
353353 of principal of the bond of a participating in-9
354354 vestment company shall be— 10
355355 ‘‘(i) made at the same time as returns 11
356356 of private capital; and 12
357357 ‘‘(ii) in amounts equal to the pro rata 13
358358 share of the Administration of the total 14
359359 amount being repaid or returned at such 15
360360 time. 16
361361 ‘‘(F) L
362362 IQUIDATION OR DEFAULT .—Upon 17
363363 any liquidation event or default, as defined by 18
364364 the Administration, any unpaid principal or ac-19
365365 crued interest on the bond shall— 20
366366 ‘‘(i) have a priority over all equity of 21
367367 the participating investment company; and 22
368368 ‘‘(ii) be paid before any return of eq-23
369369 uity or any other distributions to the inves-24
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373373 tors or managers of the participating in-1
374374 vestment company. 2
375375 ‘‘(3) A
376376 MOUNT OF COMMITMENTS AND PUR -3
377377 CHASES.— 4
378378 ‘‘(A) M
379379 AXIMUM AMOUNT .—The maximum 5
380380 amount of outstanding bonds and commitments 6
381381 to purchase bonds for any participating invest-7
382382 ment company under the facility shall be the 8
383383 lesser of— 9
384384 ‘‘(i) twice the amount of the regu-10
385385 latory capital of the participating invest-11
386386 ment company; or 12
387387 ‘‘(ii) $200,000,000. 13
388388 ‘‘(4) C
389389 OMMITMENT PROCESS .—Commitments by 14
390390 the Administration to purchase bonds under the fa-15
391391 cility shall remain available to be sold by a partici-16
392392 pating investment company until the end of the 17
393393 fourth fiscal year following the year in which the 18
394394 commitment is made, subject to review and approval 19
395395 by the Administration based on regulatory compli-20
396396 ance, financial status, change in management, devi-21
397397 ation from business plan, and such other limitations 22
398398 as may be determined by the Administration by reg-23
399399 ulation or otherwise. 24
400400 ‘‘(5) C
401401 OMMITMENT CONDITIONS .— 25
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405405 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of re-1
406406 ceiving a commitment under the facility, not 2
407407 less than 50 percent of amounts invested by the 3
408408 participating investment company shall be in-4
409409 vested in eligible small business concerns. 5
410410 ‘‘(B) E
411411 XAMINATIONS.—In addition to the 6
412412 matters set forth in section 310(c), the Admin-7
413413 istration shall examine each participating in-8
414414 vestment company in such detail so as to deter-9
415415 mine whether the participating investment com-10
416416 pany has complied with the requirements under 11
417417 this subsection. 12
418418 ‘‘(f) D
419419 ISTRIBUTIONS ANDFEES.— 13
420420 ‘‘(1) D
421421 ISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS .— 14
422422 ‘‘(A) D
423423 ISTRIBUTIONS.—As a condition of 15
424424 receiving a commitment under the facility, a 16
425425 participating investment company shall make 17
426426 all distributions to the Administrator in the 18
427427 same form and in a manner as are made to in-19
428428 vestors, or otherwise at a time and in a manner 20
429429 consistent with regulations or policies of the 21
430430 Administration. 22
431431 ‘‘(B) A
432432 LLOCATIONS.—A participating in-23
433433 vestment company shall make allocations of in-24
434434 come, gain, loss, deduction, and credit to the 25
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438438 Administrator with respect to any outstanding 1
439439 bonds as if the Administrator were an investor. 2
440440 ‘‘(2) F
441441 EES.—The Administrator may not 3
442442 charge fees for participating investment companies 4
443443 other than examination fees that are consistent with 5
444444 the license of the participating investment company. 6
445445 ‘‘(3) B
446446 IFURCATION.—Losses on bonds issued by 7
447447 participating investment companies shall not be off-8
448448 set by fees or any other charges on debenture small 9
449449 business investment companies. 10
450450 ‘‘(g) P
451451 ROTE´GE´PROGRAM.—The Administrator shall 11
452452 establish a pathway-prote´ge´program in which a prote´ge´ 12
453453 investment company may receive technical assistance and 13
454454 program support from a participating investment company 14
455455 on a voluntary basis and without penalty for non-partici-15
456456 pation. 16
457457 ‘‘(h) L
458458 OSSLIMITINGFUND.— 17
459459 ‘‘(1) I
460460 N GENERAL.—There is established in the 18
461461 Treasury a fund for making commitments and pur-19
462462 chasing bonds with equity features under the facility 20
463463 and receiving capital returned by participating in-21
464464 vestment companies. 22
465465 ‘‘(2) U
466466 SE OF FUNDS.—Amounts appropriated 23
467467 to the Fund or deposited in the Fund under para-24
468468 graph (3) shall be available to the Administrator, 25
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472472 without further appropriation, for making commit-1
473473 ments and purchasing bonds under the facility and 2
474474 expenses and payments, excluding administrative ex-3
475475 penses, relating to the operations of the Adminis-4
476476 trator under the facility. 5
477477 ‘‘(3) D
478478 EPOSITING OF AMOUNTS .— 6
479479 ‘‘(A) I
480480 N GENERAL.—All amounts received 7
481481 by the Administrator from a participating in-8
482482 vestment company relating to the facility, in-9
483483 cluding any moneys, property, or assets derived 10
484484 by the Administrator from operations in con-11
485485 nection with the facility, shall be deposited in 12
486486 the Fund. 13
487487 ‘‘(B) P
488488 ERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—Amounts 14
489489 deposited under subparagraph (A) shall remain 15
490490 available until expended. 16
491491 ‘‘(i) A
492492 PPLICATION OFOTHERSECTIONS.—To the ex-17
493493 tent not inconsistent with requirements under this section, 18
494494 the Administrator may apply sections 309, 311, 312, 313, 19
495495 and 314 to activities under this section and an officer, di-20
496496 rector, employee, agent, or other participant in a partici-21
497497 pating investment company shall be subject to the require-22
498498 ments under such sections. 23
499499 ‘‘(j) A
500500 UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 24
501501 is authorized to be appropriated for the first fiscal year 25
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505505 beginning after the date of enactment of this part 1
506506 $10,000,000,000 to carry out the facility. Amounts appro-2
507507 priated pursuant to this subsection shall remain available 3
508508 until the end of the second fiscal year beginning after the 4
509509 date of enactment of this section.’’. 5
510510 (b) A
511511 PPROVAL OFBANK-OWNED, NON-LEVERAGED 6
512512 A
513513 PPLICANTS.—Section 301(c)(2) of the Small Business 7
514514 Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 681(c)(2)) is amend-8
515515 ed— 9
516516 (1) in subparagraph (B), in the matter pre-10
517517 ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘Within’’ and inserting 11
518518 ‘‘Except as provided in subparagraph (C), within’’; 12
519519 and 13
520520 (2) by adding at the end the following: 14
521521 ‘‘(C) E
522522 XCEPTION FOR BANK -OWNED, NON- 15
523523 LEVERAGED APPLICANTS .—Notwithstanding 16
524524 subparagraph (B), not later than 45 days after 17
525525 the date on which the Administrator receives a 18
526526 completed application submitted by a bank- 19
527527 owned, non-leveraged applicant in accordance 20
528528 with this subsection and in accordance with 21
529529 such requirements as the Administrator may 22
530530 prescribe by regulation, the Administrator 23
531531 shall— 24
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535535 ‘‘(i) review the application in its en-1
536536 tirety; and 2
537537 ‘‘(ii)(I) approve the application and 3
538538 issue a license for such operation to the 4
539539 applicant if the requirements of this sec-5
540540 tion are satisfied; or 6
541541 ‘‘(II) disapprove the application and 7
542542 notify the applicant in writing of the dis-8
543543 approval.’’. 9
544544 (c) E
545545 LECTRONICSUBMISSIONS.—Part A of title III 10
546546 of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 11
547547 681 et seq.), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, 12
548548 is further amended by adding at the end the following: 13
549549 ‘‘SEC. 322. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS. 14
550550 ‘‘The Administration shall permit any document sub-15
551551 mitted under this title, or pursuant to a regulation car-16
552552 rying out this title, to be submitted electronically, includ-17
553553 ing by permitting an electronic signature for any signature 18
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