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<meta><dc:title>117 HR 1651 ENR: To amend the CARES Act to extend the sunset for the definition of a small business debtor, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>1651</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="117">One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Sunday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-one</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the CARES Act to extend the sunset for the definition of a small business debtor, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d58859e62" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">COVID–19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act of 2021</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d58859e72" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>EXTENSIONS.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e76" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 1113 of the CARES Act (<ref href="/us/pl/116/136">Public Law 116–136</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e91" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in subsection (a)(5) (<ref href="/us/usc/t11/s1182">11 U.S.C. 1182 note</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>1 year</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2 years</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e105" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in subsection (b)(2)(B) (<ref href="/us/usc/t11/s101">11 U.S.C. 101 note</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>1 year</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2 years</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e119" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Modification of Plan After Confirmation</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e126" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/b/1" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content><ref href="/us/usc/t11/s1329/d/1">Section 1329(d)(1) of title 11, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>this subsection</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the COVID–19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act of 2021</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d58859e142" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s2/b/2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>Section 1113(b)(1)(D)(ii) of the CARES Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t11/s1329">11 U.S.C. 1329 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>this Act</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the COVID–19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act of 2021</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="d58859e160" identifier="/us/bill/117/hr/1651/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled “Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation” for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.</content></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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