Bennet promises to temporarily increase the size and scope of SBA loans for small businesses, including raising 504 loan limits, 7(a) loan limits, and microloan limits.

Specifically, Bennet is pushing for a temporary increase in the size and scope of Small Business Administration (SBA) loans... Bennet’s blueprint would temporarily increase SBA guarantees loans... Increases the limits on 504 loans... Increases the limits on 7(a) loans... Increases the loan limit on microloans...

He proposes temporarily expanding SBA lending capacity by raising loan caps across multiple SBA programs.

Bennet Lays Out Working Blueprint to Help Colorado Small Businesses Grow, Create Good-Paying Jobs for Coloradans - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
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Bennet’s blueprint would make SBA loans available to community-based lenders, like Community Development Financial Institutions, or CDFIs... Bennet is pushing to allow these loans to occur.

He wants SBA-backed lending extended to community-based lenders that serve underserved businesses.

Bennet Lays Out Working Blueprint to Help Colorado Small Businesses Grow, Create Good-Paying Jobs for Coloradans - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
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Bennet’s blueprint would temporarily eliminate the requirement that an intermediary microlender provide a 15 percent, non-federal match on loan funds secured from SBA.

He proposes removing the microloan intermediary matching-fund requirement to increase lending capacity.

Bennet Lays Out Working Blueprint to Help Colorado Small Businesses Grow, Create Good-Paying Jobs for Coloradans - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
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Providing more resources targeted at reducing the backlog for small inventors and entrepreneurs to the Patent and Trademark Office... would provide a needed boost to small business inventors and innovators.

He calls for additional PTO resources to speed patent processing and help innovators.

Bennet Lays Out Working Blueprint to Help Colorado Small Businesses Grow, Create Good-Paying Jobs for Coloradans - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
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Public Law 111-240 enacted H.R. 5297 on Sept. 27, 2010. Sections 1111-1113 amended SBA programs by raising 7(a) maximums to $5,000,000, raising 504 maximums to $5,000,000 or $5,500,000, and raising microloan limits from $35,000 to $50,000.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted law directly implemented the promised SBA loan-limit increases for 7(a), 504, and microloan programs.

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Public Law 111-240, Small Business Jobs Act of 2010
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On Sept. 16, 2010, the Senate passed H.R. 5297, as amended, by 61-38. The roll call lists Bennet (D-CO) as voting Yea on passage of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Bennet took concrete official action by voting for the bill that carried the SBA loan expansions before it became Public Law 111-240.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 237, 111th Congress, 2nd Session
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