Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-9013
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2020-12-17
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy

Public utilities and utility rates
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2019 </b></p> <p>This bill specifies that an individual bankruptcy debtor may not be required to furnish a security deposit to maintain utility services if the debtor pays specified debts owed to the utility within a certain time frame. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9013 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 17, 2020 Mr. Johnson of Georgia 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 2019 . 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. .