7 U.S.C. § 1943
Limitations on amount of operating loans
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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The Secretary shall make or insure no loan under this subchapter—
For purposes of this section, the inflation percentage applicable to a fiscal year is the percentage (if any) by which—
Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may establish a program to make or guarantee microloans.
The Secretary shall not make or guarantee a microloan under this subsection that would cause the total principal indebtedness outstanding at any 1 time for microloans made under this subsection to any 1 borrower to exceed $50,000.
To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall limit the administrative burdens and streamline the application and approval process for microloans under this subsection.
Subject to subparagraph (B), during each of the 2014 through 2023 fiscal years, the Secretary may carry out a pilot project to make loans to community development financial institutions, as the Secretary determines appropriate—
Prior to making a loan to an institution described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall—
review and approve—
To be eligible for a loan under subparagraph (A), an institution described in subparagraph (A) shall, as determined by the Secretary—
Not less often than annually, on a date determined by the Secretary, an institution that has a loan under this paragraph shall provide to the Secretary such information as the Secretary may require to ensure that the services provided by the institution are serving the purposes of this subsection.
The Secretary shall not make more than $10,000,000 in loans under this paragraph in any fiscal year.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Agricultural Credit Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Agricultural Programs Adjustment Act of 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
- Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013
- Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018