March 3, 2021
In April 2020, Congress enacted the first significant legislation that provided federal funding to individuals, organizations, and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This statute, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act [...]
February 23, 2021
In late October and early November 2020, the SBA began distributing to lenders SBA Form 3509[1] and 3510[2] (the “Loan Necessity Questionnaire”) to collect supplemental information for its review of loan forgiveness applications, [...]
February 22, 2021
With the advent of the Biden Administration, impeachment, winter storms, the long-awaited rollout of a COVID vaccine, and the prospects of additional COVID-19 relief measures being passed by Congress, it might be easy [...]
September 9, 2020
The covered entities involved in the two most recent HIPAA settlements could not be more different: A small federally qualified health center (with approximately 43 employees and serving approximately 3,100 patients per [...]
August 31, 2020
On August 28, 2020, the Office of Head Start (OHS) published a Final Rule, which updated the Designation Renewal System (DRS). Originally established in 2011, the DRS, which is comprised of seven conditions, [...]
August 17, 2020
Our Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP (FTLF) grant law attorneys have completed an initial review of the recent changes to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform [...]
August 12, 2020
On January 22, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued proposed revisions to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (the Uniform Guidance). We previously wrote about noteworthy [...]
July 7, 2020
On July 4, 2020, the President signed S. 4116 into law, extending the date by which eligible borrowers may apply for Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loans through August 8, 2020.[1] Prior to this [...]
June 22, 2020
On June 17, 2020, in light of the recent changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) by the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act,[1] the SBA released a revised Loan Forgiveness Application (“Full Loan [...]
June 8, 2020
On June 5, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Flexibility Act[1] became law, again changing major features of the PPP Loan Program. As its name suggests, the new law was enacted primarily to [...]