Sec. 205. Funding of the Initiative to Build Growth Equity Funds for Minority Businesses
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The Minority Business Development Agency shall provide a grant of $3,000,000,000 to fully implement the Initiative to Build Growth Equity Funds for Minority Businesses (the Initiative ; award number MB19OBD8020113), including to use such amounts as capital for the Equity Funds. Of the amounts provided under subsection (a), the grant recipient may use not more than 2.25 percent of such amount for administrative expenses, of which— not more than 1.5 percent per annum may be used for fees to be paid to investment managers for fund investment activities, including deal sourcing, due diligence, investment monitoring, and investment reporting; and not more than 0.75 percent per annum may be used for fund administration activities by the grant recipient, including fund manager evaluation, selection, monitoring, and overall fund program management.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with the approval of the Minority Business Development Agency, grant funds made available under subsection
(a)may be deposited in interest-bearing accounts pending disbursement, and any interest which accrues may be retained without returning such interest to the Treasury of the United States and interest earned may be obligated and expended for the purposes for which the grant was made available without further appropriation. The grant recipient under this section shall issue a report to the Minority Business Development Agency every 6 months detailing the use of grant funds received under this section and any other information that the Minority Business Development Agency may require. The Minority Business Development Agency shall issue an annual report to the Congress containing the information received under paragraph
(1)and an analysis of the implementation of the Initiative. The Comptroller General of the United States shall, every 2 years, carry out an audit of the Initiative and issue a report to the Congress and the Minority Business Development Agency containing the results of such audit. Fund managers shall annually report on their fund management activities, including— fund performance; impacts of capital investments by industry and geography; racial, ethnic, and gender demographics of minority businesses receiving capital from the Initiative; and any other ancillary and economic benefits of capital investments from the Initiative. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Minority Business Development Agency $3,000,000,000 to make the grant described under subsection (a).