3.0.0 5138 2023-01-11T13:15:17Z 2023-01-11T13:15:17Z House H HR 2008-01-28 110 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju09 Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee Referred to 2008-02-04T16:24:55Z Referred to 2008-01-28T19:01:50Z 2008-02-04 hsju09 Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Committee 2008-01-28 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2008-01-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2008-01-28 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S001170 Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1] Carol Shea-Porter D NH 1 N W000314 Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19] ROBERT WEXLER D FL 19 2008-06-09 False Finance and Financial Sector Bankruptcy Bankruptcy courts Caregivers Cemeteries and funerals Civil procedure Cooperative housing Debtor and creditor Disabled Estates (Law) Families Health Housing and Community Development Law Social Welfare Finance and Financial Sector 00 2008-01-28 Introduced in House 2008-03-27T21:10:50Z Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to cite circumstances under which a medically distressed debtor may elect to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy up to $250,000 of the debtor's aggregate interest in specified real or personal property that the debtor (or debtor's dependent) uses as a residence, in a cooperative, or in a burial plot for the debtor or a dependent.

Revises requirements for dismissal or conversion of a Chapter 7 case to prohibit the court or specified parties in interest from filing a motion to dismiss or convert to Chapter 11 or 13 if the debtor is a medically distressed debtor or an economically distressed caregiver.

]]> Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008 Display Title Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008 Introduced in House 2008-01-28T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr5138ih/xml/BILLS-110hr5138ih.xml 2008-02-04 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.