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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends Federal Bankruptcy Law to prohibit the bankruptcy court from terminating or modifying the payment of coal industry health insurance benefits by a Chapter 11 debtor-employer to retired employees if such benefits are required by the Internal Revenue Code to be provided by such debtor-employer as the last operator signatory to a coal wage agreement.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>A bill to amend section 1114 of title 11, United States Code, to preserve the health benefits of certain retired miners.</title>
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