Minor League Baseball Relief Act
Latest action · Jun 24, 2021 Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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.
- IntroducedJun 24, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Minor League Baseball Relief Act
This bill establishes a program for the relief of certain minor league baseball clubs and independent professional baseball clubs that experienced large business losses.
The bill provides funding for the Small Business Administration to make grants to such clubs that experienced decreases in gross revenue in 2020 of at least 75%, as measured against revenues in 2019 (or, if revenues were negatively affected by a natural disaster or weather disruption in 2019, by the average of revenues over the prior three-year period).
The source of funding for the grants shall be funds appropriated under enacted COVID-19 relief legislation that have not been obligated and are no longer being used to carry out activities authorized under those laws. Grant amounts provided to any club may not exceed $10 million.
Cosponsors 62
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 24, 2021 to Feb 2, 2022; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WV | David B. McKinley | Original | Jun 24, 2021 |
| D-MI | Elissa Slotkin | Original | Jun 24, 2021 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Jun 24, 2021 |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Original | Jun 24, 2021 |
| D-PA | Susan Wild | Original | Jun 24, 2021 |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Jun 25, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Joseph D. Morelle | Jun 25, 2021 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jun 28, 2021 | |
| R-NY | Andrew R. Garbarino | Jun 29, 2021 | |
| R-IN | Jim Banks | Jun 29, 2021 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Jun 29, 2021 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Jun 29, 2021 | |
| R-MI | Fred Upton | Jun 30, 2021 | |
| R-PA | Guy Reschenthaler | Jul 1, 2021 | |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Jul 6, 2021 | |
| D-NC | Kathy E. Manning | Jul 6, 2021 | |
| R-NV | Mark E. Amodei | Jul 6, 2021 | |
| R-TN | Diana Harshbarger | Jul 9, 2021 | |
| R-IN | Jackie Walorski | Jul 9, 2021 | |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| R-NC | Gregory F. Murphy | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| R-IA | Mariannette Miller-Meeks | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| R-OH | Michael R. Turner | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Jul 16, 2021 | |
| D-NJ | Andy Kim | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| R-MI | John R. Moolenaar | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-FL | Stephanie N. Murphy | Jul 19, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Jul 21, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Jul 21, 2021 | |
| R-TX | August Pfluger | Jul 26, 2021 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Jul 28, 2021 | |
| D-TX | Veronica Escobar | Jul 28, 2021 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Jul 29, 2021 | |
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-IA | Cynthia Axne | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-MD | David J. Trone | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| R-MI | Jack Bergman | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | Aug 10, 2021 | |
| R-PA | Fred Keller | Aug 31, 2021 | |
| R-PA | Glenn Thompson | Aug 31, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Aug 31, 2021 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Aug 31, 2021 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Sep 10, 2021 | |
| R-NC | Richard Hudson | Sep 10, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Sep 10, 2021 | |
| D-NJ | Tom Malinowski | Sep 10, 2021 | |
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Sep 20, 2021 | |
| R-PA | Lloyd Smucker | Oct 12, 2021 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Oct 20, 2021 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Oct 25, 2021 | |
| R-TN | David Kustoff | Nov 16, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Dec 14, 2021 | |
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Dec 27, 2021 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Dec 27, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Dec 27, 2021 | |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Feb 2, 2022 |
Committees 2
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 Jun 24, 2021 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 24, 2021 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 24, 2021Introduced in House
- Jun 24, 2021Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 110, June 24, 2021, page H3134.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2233 | Minor League Baseball Relief Act | Related bill | Jun 24, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a grant program for shuttered minor league baseball clubs, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Minor League Baseball Relief Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Sports and Recreation.
- Accounting and auditing
- Appropriations
- Business expenses
- Business records
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Income tax exclusion
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Professional sports
- Public utilities and utility rates
- Small business
- Sports and Recreation
- Wages and earnings
- Worker safety and health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 24, 2021Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
