Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSenators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) today introduced the “SOS Extension Act,” which would extend the timeline for using Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, created by his bipartisan Save Our Stages Act, from the end of 2021 to spring of 2023.The move is largely inspired by the six-month-plus delay between the $16 billion “Save Our Stages” Covid relief act being passed into law in December and independent venues and theaters actually beginning to receive funds; in June the SBA overhauled the management of the program and funds began going out in earnest.
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