Maine Revised Statutes, Title 10, § 1100-II: Government Shutdown Loan Guarantee Program established
The section establishes a loan guarantee program administered by the authority.
- Eligibility determination
- Government shutdown relief
- Loan guarantees
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The section establishes a loan guarantee program administered by the authority.
Eligible financial institutions may make loans to qualifying affected employees, but the employee must prove eligibility, the loan amount is capped, and the agreement cannot require repayment during the grace period or charge pre-grace-period interest.
An eligible financial institution may claim loan principal recovery from the authority within a set time window after the grace period if it tried in good faith to collect and was unsuccessful.
1. Maintenance and review of records. The authority shall maintain records in the regular course of administration of the program, including a record of loans issued pursuant to section 1100‑JJ and loan guarantee payments issued pursuant
The Finance Authority of Maine may run a statewide low-interest loan program to support small business development and expansion in Maine, through contracts with designated local community action agencies.
An affected employee may not apply for a loan under the program after a shutdown ends, and a financial institution may not approve such a loan after a shutdown ends.
The authority may contract with community action agencies for the Maine Job-start Program, but participating agencies and local boards have specific duties for accepting applications, reviewing loans, reporting, and administering the program.
The appropriations and financial affairs committee may, after consulting the financial services committee, report legislation to address program funding needs.
The authority establishes a Job-start Revolving Loan Fund and controls the original fund, while approved community action agencies may administer separate revolving loan funds.
Community action agency job-start programs must file reports required by the authority, and the authority must include certain Job-start Revolving Loan Fund and program activity information in its annual report.
This section authorizes the authority to issue seed capital investment tax credit certificates and sets eligibility, investment, and reporting requirements.
1. Findings and intent. The Legislature finds that encouragement of investment in qualified businesses and developments located in economically distressed areas of the State and the creation and preservation of jobs are in the public
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