On April 24th, 2020, President Trump signed into law H.R. 266, known as the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (PPPHCE Act) that will re-open the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program by allocating additional funds to both. The Act makes $484 billion of additional funding available split as follows:
PPP
The PPP will get an additional $310 billion in government funds for new loans, taking it from $349 billion to $659 billion in total.
Of that new $310 billion, $250 billion is unrestricted. Of the remaining $60 billion, half will be allocated to lenders with assets of less than $10 billion, and half to those with assets between $10 billion and $50 billion.
Agricultural enterprises (as defined in section 18(b) of the Small Business Act U.S.C. 647(b)) with not more than 500 employees are now eligible for the PPP.
EIDL
The EIDL program will get an additional $60 billion in funding through the SBA. It will be allocated as follows:
- $50 billion for new EIDL loans
- $10 billion for the Emergency EIDL Grants – the advances that are granted when a borrower applies for the EIDL
SBA
The SBA itself gets $2.1 billion for salaries and expenses.
SBA Announcement
On the same day, the SBA also announced that it will resume accepting PPP loan applications on Monday, April 27 at 10:30 AM EDT from approved lenders on behalf of any eligible borrower. This will ensure that the SBA has properly coded the system to account for changes made by the legislation.
The SBA also stated that PPP loans have already been approved for more than 1.66 million small businesses covering over 30 million American workers.
Funding for Hospitals and COVID-19 Testing
The Act also includes $75 billion of funding for hospitals and eligible healthcare providers and $25 billion to research, develop, manufacture, and expand capacity for COVID–19 tests to effectively monitor and suppress the Coronavirus outbreak.
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About the Author
Paren Knadjian, Practice Leader
Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, PPP Forgiveness
Paren is the practice leader of the M&A and Capital Markets group at KROST. He comes with over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions as well as equity and debt financings. In that time, Paren successfully completed over 200 M&A and Capital Markets transactions worth over $1 billion, acting as both a buy-side and sell-side advisor. » Full Bio