HR 7806 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

SOS Act

Introduced Jul 27, 2020 Originated House Sponsor Peter Welch D-VT

Latest action · Jul 27, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJul 27, 2020
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Save our Stages Act or the SOS Act

This bill authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to eligible live venue operators, producers, promoters, or talent representatives to address the economic effects of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic on certain live venues.

Specifically, the SBA may make (1) an initial grant of up to $12 million dollars to an eligible operator, promoter, producer, or talent representative; and (2) a supplemental grant that is equal to 50% of the initial grant. An initial grant must be used for costs incurred between March 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020, but a supplemental grant may be used for expenses incurred through June 30, 2021.

Such grants shall be used for specified expenses such as payroll costs, rent, utilities, and personal protective equipment.

Cosponsors 174

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 27, 2020 to Dec 17, 2020; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-TX	Roger Williams	Original	Jul 27, 2020
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jul 29, 2020
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jul 29, 2020
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jul 29, 2020
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jul 29, 2020
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jul 29, 2020
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jul 29, 2020
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Jul 29, 2020
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jul 29, 2020
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Jul 30, 2020
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 30, 2020
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jul 30, 2020
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jul 30, 2020
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 30, 2020
R-MI	Fred Upton		Jul 31, 2020
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 31, 2020
D-CA	Mike Levin		Jul 31, 2020
D-MN	Angie Craig		Aug 4, 2020
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Aug 4, 2020
D-MN	Dean Phillips		Aug 4, 2020
D-MN	Ilhan Omar		Aug 4, 2020
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Aug 4, 2020
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Aug 4, 2020
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Aug 4, 2020
R-IL	Rodney Davis		Aug 4, 2020
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		Aug 4, 2020
D-WA	Adam Smith		Aug 7, 2020
D-MI	Andy Levin		Aug 7, 2020
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Aug 7, 2020
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Aug 7, 2020
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Aug 7, 2020
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Aug 7, 2020
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Aug 7, 2020
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Aug 7, 2020
D-IA	David Loebsack		Aug 7, 2020
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Aug 7, 2020
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Aug 7, 2020
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Aug 7, 2020
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Aug 7, 2020
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Aug 7, 2020
D-NY	Max Rose		Aug 7, 2020
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Aug 7, 2020
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Aug 7, 2020
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Aug 7, 2020
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Aug 7, 2020
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Aug 11, 2020
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Aug 11, 2020
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Aug 11, 2020
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Aug 11, 2020
D-MD	David J. Trone		Aug 11, 2020
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Aug 11, 2020
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Aug 11, 2020
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Aug 11, 2020
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Aug 11, 2020
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Aug 11, 2020
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Aug 11, 2020
R-OK	Tom Cole		Aug 11, 2020
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Aug 11, 2020
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Aug 14, 2020
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Aug 14, 2020
D-FL	Darren Soto		Aug 14, 2020
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Aug 14, 2020
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Aug 14, 2020
D-CA	Harley Rouda		Aug 14, 2020
D-CT	James A. Himes		Aug 14, 2020
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Aug 14, 2020
R-TX	Kay Granger		Aug 14, 2020
D-WI	Ron Kind		Aug 14, 2020
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Aug 14, 2020
D-NV	Susie Lee		Aug 14, 2020
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Aug 14, 2020
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Aug 18, 2020
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Aug 18, 2020
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Aug 18, 2020
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Aug 18, 2020
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Aug 21, 2020
D-CA	Josh Harder		Aug 21, 2020
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Aug 21, 2020
D-PA	Susan Wild		Aug 21, 2020
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Aug 21, 2020
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Aug 25, 2020
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Aug 25, 2020
D-IL	Bill Foster		Aug 25, 2020
R-NE	Don Bacon		Aug 25, 2020
D-CA	Judy Chu		Aug 25, 2020
D-OK	Kendra S. Horn		Aug 25, 2020
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Aug 25, 2020
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Aug 25, 2020
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Aug 25, 2020
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Aug 25, 2020
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Aug 28, 2020
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Aug 28, 2020
D-FL	Donna E. Shalala		Aug 28, 2020
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Aug 28, 2020
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Aug 28, 2020
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Aug 28, 2020
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Aug 28, 2020
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Aug 28, 2020
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Aug 28, 2020
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Aug 28, 2020
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Sep 1, 2020
D-CT	Jahana Hayes		Sep 1, 2020
D-CT	John B. Larson		Sep 1, 2020
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Sep 1, 2020
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Sep 1, 2020
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Sep 11, 2020
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Sep 11, 2020
D-NV	Dina Titus		Sep 11, 2020
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Sep 11, 2020
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Sep 14, 2020
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Sep 14, 2020
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 14, 2020
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 14, 2020
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Sep 14, 2020
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Sep 14, 2020
D-SC	Joe Cunningham		Sep 14, 2020
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Sep 14, 2020
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 14, 2020
R-MO	Billy Long		Sep 17, 2020
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Sep 17, 2020
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Sep 17, 2020
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Sep 17, 2020
R-TX	Will Hurd		Sep 17, 2020
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Sep 18, 2020
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Sep 18, 2020
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Sep 18, 2020
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Sep 22, 2020
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Sep 22, 2020
R-AK	Don Young		Sep 22, 2020
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Sep 22, 2020
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Sep 22, 2020
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Sep 24, 2020
D-CO	Jason Crow		Sep 24, 2020
D-CA	Katie Porter		Sep 24, 2020
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 24, 2020
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Sep 29, 2020
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Sep 29, 2020
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Sep 29, 2020
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Sep 29, 2020
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Sep 29, 2020
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Sep 29, 2020
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland		Sep 30, 2020
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Sep 30, 2020
D-NC	David E. Price		Oct 1, 2020
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Oct 1, 2020
D-IL	Sean Casten		Oct 1, 2020
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Oct 2, 2020
D-IA	Abby Finkenauer		Oct 6, 2020
D-WA	Denny Heck		Oct 13, 2020
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Oct 13, 2020
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Oct 20, 2020
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Oct 20, 2020
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Oct 20, 2020
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Oct 27, 2020
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Oct 27, 2020
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Oct 30, 2020
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Nov 12, 2020
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Nov 12, 2020
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Nov 12, 2020
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Nov 17, 2020
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		Nov 19, 2020
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Nov 19, 2020
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Nov 20, 2020
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Nov 20, 2020
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		Nov 30, 2020
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan		Nov 30, 2020
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Nov 30, 2020
R-CA	Paul Cook		Dec 2, 2020
R-WI	Mike Gallagher		Dec 3, 2020
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Dec 3, 2020
R-FL	John H. Rutherford		Dec 4, 2020
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Dec 8, 2020
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Dec 17, 2020
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Dec 17, 2020

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Small Business Committee	Referred Jul 27, 2020

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 27, 2020Introduced in House
Jul 27, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

In the Congressional Record 3

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H5991	Angie Craig D-MN	Nov 20, 2020
House	Debate and remarks H5875	Roger Williams R-TX	Nov 18, 2020
House	Debate and remarks H3991	Roger Williams R-TX	Jul 30, 2020

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: The Congress shall have Power to . . . make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 132, July 27, 2020, page H3881.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
S. Hrg. 116-633	EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE LIVE EVENT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY72 pages	Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee	Dec 15, 2020

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R46689	SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program (SVOG)	Report	Jul 5, 2022

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 4258	SOS Act	Identical bill	Jul 22, 2020
S 4818	Heroes Small Business Lifeline Act	Related bill	Dec 10, 2020

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To establish a grant program for small live venue operators and talent representatives.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: SOS Act; Save our Stages Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 27, 2020Introduced in House

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