This bill requires a state agency or other organization that receives state funding for the purposes of economic and community development to develop a strategy to ensure that natural resource-based businesses and businesses with 3 or fewer employees have access to lending programs with priority placed upon disseminating information and assistance to rural areas. This bill also requires that an agency or organization required to develop such a strategy report by January 15th of each year to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over business and economic development matters concerning the effect and impact of the strategy in relation to the purposes of the bill. The bill requires the Maine Small Business Commission to coordinate outreach and technical assistance to natural resource-based businesses and businesses with 3 or fewer employees and to work closely with various state agencies and other programs to develop an overall plan for this outreach and technical assistance.