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H.R. 2670, Microloan Modernization Act of 2015 1 (October 1, 2015)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2534 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE October 1, 2015 H.R. 2670 Microloan Modernization Act of 2015 As passed by the House of Representatives on July 13, 2015 Under current law, the Small Business Administration (SBA) operates a program that makes loans and grants to eligible nonprofit entities (known as intermediaries). Intermediaries use those funds to make small loans (microloans that are less than $50,000) to newly-established or growing small businesses. Participating intermediaries use grant funds from SBA to provide technical assistance to small businesses receiving a microloan. H.R. 2670 would make a number of changes to the microloan program, including raising the amount the SBA may commit to an intermediary, extending the maximum term for repayment of the microloan to the intermediary, and authorizing intermediaries to offer lines of credit as well as traditional loans. (A line of credit allows a borrower to establish a maximum loan amount that the borrower may draw down as the funds are required.) The act also would direct the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study of intermediaries to determine why some that may be eligible to participate in the program fail to do so, and to recommend ways to increase participation in the program. Finally, the SBA's Office of Advocacy would be directed to prepare an analysis of the effect of new rules on small businesses eligible to participate in the microloan program. Based on information from the SBA, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 2670 would cost about $3 million over the 2016-2020 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts for monitoring, rulemaking, and reporting activities, as well as for additional subsidy costs for the microloan program. Enacting H.R. 2670 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO expects that provisions of the act that would allow intermediaries to offer lines of credit as well as traditional loans would affect the subsidy rate for the microloan program. The subsidy rate is the estimated long-term cost to the government of a direct loan, calculated on a net-present-value basis, stated as a percentage of the loan amount. (In fiscal year 2015, that estimated rate is about 10 percent for the microloan program, which in recent years has provided an average of about $30 million a year in loans.) Intermediaries depend on a steady stream of repayments from their borrowers to repay the SBA. By allowing all participating intermediaries to offer lines of credit, the steady stream

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