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any provision in a qualified financial con-
tract that suspends, conditions, or extin-
guishes a payment obligation of a party, in 
whole or in part, or does not create a pay-
ment obligation of a party that would oth-
erwise exist, solely because of such party’s 
status as a nondefaulting party in connec-
tion with the insolvency of an insured cred-
it union or the appointment of or the exer-
cise of rights or powers by a conservator or 
liquidating agent of such credit union, and 
not as a result of a party’s exercise of any 
right to offset, setoff, or net obligations 
that exist under the contract, any other 
contract between those parties, or applica-
ble law.’’. 
SEC. 7. COMPENSATION OF CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEES; CHAP-
TER 7 FILING FEES. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 11 OF THE UNITED 
STATES CODE.— 
(1) COMPENSATION
OF
CHAPTER
TRUST-
EES.—Section 330(b)(1) of title 11, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$45’’ and inserting 
‘‘$100’’, and 
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(B) by inserting before the period at the 
end the following: 
‘‘, except that such amount shall be adjusted by the 
amount (if any) of such filing fee waived under the 2d 
sentence of section 1930(f)(1) of title 28’’. 
(2) RELATED
AMENDMENTS.—Section 330(b) 
of title 11, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(1)’’, and 
(B) by striking paragraph (2). 
(b) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 28 OF THE UNITED 
STATES CODE.— 
(1) CHAPTER 7 FILING FEE.—Section 1930 of 
title 28 of the United States Code, as amended by 
section 10101 of Public Law 109-171, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1)(A) by striking 
‘‘$245’’ and inserting ‘‘$300’’, and 
(B) in subsection (f)(1) by inserting after 
the 1st sentence the following: 
‘‘Under the procedures prescribed by the Judicial Con-
ference of the United States, the district court or the 
bankruptcy court shall waive $40 of the filing fee required 
by subsection (a) in a case under chapter 7 of title 11 
for an individual if the court determines that such indi-
vidual has income not less than 150 percent, and not more 
than 175 percent, of the income official poverty line (as 
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defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and re-
vised annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the 
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981) applicable 
to a family of the size involved.’’. 
(2) UNITED STATES TRUSTEE FUND.—Section 
589a(b)(1)(A) of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘40.46 percent of the fees col-
lected under section 1930(a)(1)(A)’’ and inserting 
‘‘29.67 percent of the sum of the amount of fees col-
lected under section 1930(a)(1)(A) and the amount 
of fees waived under the 2d sentence of section 
1930(f)(1)’’. 
(c) RELATED AMENDMENT REGARDING COLLEC-
TIONS AND DEPOSITS OF MISCELLANEOUS BANKRUPTCY 
FEES.—Section 406(b) of the Judiciary Appropriations 
Act, 1990 (28 U.S.C. 1931 note) is amended by striking 
‘‘28.87 percent of the fees collected under section 
1930(a)(1)(A) of that title’’ and inserting ‘‘21.17 percent 
of the sum of the amount of fees collected under section 
1930(a)(1)(A) of that title and the amount of fees waived 
under the 2d sentence of section 1930(f)(1)) of that title’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 10101(a) 
of Public Law 109–171 is amended by striking paragraph 
(2). 
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(e) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION
OF AMEND-
MENTS.—The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 120 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act and shall not apply with respect to cases commenced 
under title 11 of the United States Code before the date 
such amendments take effect. 
SEC. 8. SCOPE OF APPLICATION. 
Subject to section 7(e), the amendments made by this 
Act shall not apply to any cases commenced under title 
11, United States Code, or appointments made under any 
Federal or State law, before the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 27, 
2006. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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