Title: HAVEN Act
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need Act of 2019 or the HAVEN Act
This bill modifies the treatment of certain veterans' benefits in bankruptcy.
Specifically, the bill excludes from a debtor's current monthly income certain benefits, including disability benefits, paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 679 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 679

To exempt from the calculation of monthly income certain benefits paid 
  by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 6, 2019

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Tester, Mr. Isakson, Mr. 
Jones, Mr. Tillis, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Grassley, 
   Ms. Smith, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Moran, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. 
    Cotton, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Rounds) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To exempt from the calculation of monthly income certain benefits paid 
  by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Honoring American Veterans in 
Extreme Need Act of 2019'' or the ``HAVEN Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF CURRENT MONTHLY INCOME.

    Section 101(10A) of title 11, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:
                    ``(B)(i) includes any amount paid by any entity 
                other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor 
                and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the 
                household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's 
                dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if 
                not otherwise a dependent); and
                    ``(ii) excludes--
                            ``(I) benefits received under the Social 
                        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.);
                            ``(II) payments to victims of war crimes or 
                        crimes against humanity on account of their 
                        status as victims of such crimes;
                            ``(III) payments to victims of 
                        international terrorism or domestic terrorism, 
                        as those terms are defined in section 2331 of 
                        title 18, on account of their status as victims 
                        of such terrorism; and
                            ``(IV) any monthly compensation, pension, 
                        pay, annuity, or allowance paid under title 10, 
                        37, or 38 in connection with a disability, 
                        combat-related injury or disability, or death 
                        of a member of the uniformed services, except 
                        that any retired pay excluded under this 
                        subclause shall include retired pay paid under 
                        chapter 61 of title 10 only to the extent that 
                        such retired pay exceeds the amount of retired 
                        pay to which the debtor would otherwise be 
                        entitled if retired under any provision of 
                        title 10 other than chapter 61 of that 
                        title.''.
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