Bankruptcy - Legislation
- Bill Introduced: H.R.1575 End Government Reimbursement of Excessive Executive Disbursements ...
To authorize the Attorney General to limit or recover excessive compensation paid or payable by entities that have received Federal financial assistance on or after September 1, 2008.
(March 15, 2009) - Bill Signed by President: H.R.1105 Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009
Making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
March 11, 2009: Signed by President.
(March 9, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
To prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability.
(February 21, 2009) - Bill Introduced: S.431 Economic Recovery Adjustment Act of 2009
A bill to establish the Temporary Economic Recovery Adjustment Panel to curb excessive executive compensation at firms receiving emergency economic assistance.
(February 10, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.901 Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems.
(February 2, 2009) - Bill Introduced: S.257 Consumer Credit Fairness Act
A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to disallow certain claims resulting from high cost credit debts, and for other purposes.
(January 13, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.467 Equitable Treatment of State and Local Governments Act of 2009
To put State and local governments and other public entity or instrumentality established under State law in the same position they would have been in had the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System provided emergency financial assistance to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. by requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds issued by such financial institution, and for other purposes.
(January 11, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.313 Customs Business Fairness Act of 2009
To amend title 11, United States Code, to establish a priority for the payment of claims for duties paid to the United States by licensed customs brokers and sureties on behalf of a debtor.
(January 6, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.225 Emergency Homeownership and Equity Protection Act
To amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.
(January 5, 2009) - Bill Introduced: S.61 Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009
A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.
(January 4, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.200 Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009
To amend title 11 of the United States Code with respect to modification of certain mortgages on principal residences, and for other purposes.
(January 4, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.27 Medicare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Act of 2009
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish additional provisions to combat waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare Program, and for other purposes.
(January 4, 2009) - Bill Introduced: H.R.7321 Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act
To authorize financial assistance to eligible automobile manufacturers, and for other purposes.
(December 8, 2008) - Bill Signed by President: S.3197 National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Act of 2008
A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to exempt for a limited period, from the application of the means-test presumption of abuse under chapter 7, qualifying members of reserve components of the Armed Forces and members of the National Guard who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 90 days.
October 20, 2008: Signed by President.
(October 18, 2008) - Bill Signed by President: S.3569 Judicial Administration and Technical Amendments Act of 2008
A bill to make improvements in the operation and administration of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
October 13, 2008: Signed by President.
(October 11, 2008) - Bill Enacted: H.R.430 To designate the United States bankruptcy courthouse located at 271 ...
To designate the United States bankruptcy courthouse located at 271 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the "Conrad Duberstein United States Bankruptcy Courthouse".
July 15, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-262.
(July 13, 2008) - Bill Introduced: H.R.5754 Employees' Pension Security Act of 2008
To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and title 11, United State Code, to provide necessary reforms for employee pension benefit plans.
(April 7, 2008) - Bill Introduced: H.R.5138 Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems.
(January 26, 2008) - Bill Signed by President: H.R.660 Court Security Improvement Act of 2007
To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect judges, prosecutors, witnesses, victims, and their family members, and for other purposes.
January 07, 2008: Signed by President.
(January 5, 2008)