Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5132
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2014-07-17
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy

Public utilities and utility rates
Latest action: action_date: 2014-09-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law, with respect to the prohibition against disruption of utility services to a debtor, to declare that an individual debtor may not be required to furnish assurance of payment if he or she pays, within 20 days after the date of the order for relief, those debts owed to a utility for service during that period, and afterward also pays when due debts owed for service during the pendency of the case in bankruptcy.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5132 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 17, 2014 Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Jackson Lee , Ms. Norton , and Ms. Lofgren ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 11 of the United States Code to dispense with the requirement of providing assurance of payment for utility services under certain circumstances.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 . 2. Amendment Section 366 of title 11, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section in a case in which the debtor is an individual, if the debtor pays in the 20-day period beginning on the date of the order for relief debts owed to a utility for service provided during such period and thereafter pays when due debts owed to such utility for service provided during the pendency of the case, then the debtor may not be required to furnish assurance of payment. .