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Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017

Introduced: May 11, 2017 Introduced by: Coons, Christopher A. Democratic · Delaware See on congress.gov
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Held at the desk.
Sep 6, 2017
Received in the House.
Sep 5, 2017
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Sep 5, 2017
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Sep 5, 2017
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4956)
Sep 5, 2017
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4956)
Sep 5, 2017
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
May 11, 2017
Introduced in Senate
May 11, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
 Amendments to this bill 1

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1 agreed to

AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest action
SAMDT 787 Grassley, Chuck In the nature of a substitute. Agreed to Sep 5, 2017
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill reauthorizes 14 temporary bankruptcy judgeships in specified judicial districts in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Nevada, and North Carolina.

(Sec. 3) It authorizes the appointment of four additional temporary bankruptcy judges in Delaware, Florida, and Michigan.

(Sec. 4) The bill amends the federal judicial code to increase the quarterly fee imposed on certain chapter 11 (reorganization) debtors. Specifically, if the balance in the U.S. Trustee System Fund is less than $200 million, then a debtor with total quarterly disbursements of $1 million or more must pay a quarterly fee equal to $250,000 or 1% of disbursements, whichever is less.

It also specifies that for FY2018-FY2022, 98% of the quarterly fees collected must be deposited as offsetting collections to the U.S. Trustee System Fund and 2% must be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.

(Sec. 5) This section amends the federal bankruptcy code to include an unsecured claim by a governmental unit (e.g., a tax claim by the Internal Revenue Service) resulting from the sale, transfer, exchange, or disposition of farming property in chapter 12 bankruptcy (family farmer or fisherman reorganization) proceedings. Such a claim that arises before a debtor's discharge, regardless of whether the claim is pre-petition or post-petition, must be treated as a pre-petition claim, is not entitled to priority status, must be provided for under the bankruptcy plan, and is dischargeable.
What's happening now September 6, 2017

Held at the desk.

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All 1 Democratic 1
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Cortez Masto, Catherine
Nevada · May 11, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1107: Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1107/
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