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<title>Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2014</title>
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<action-date>2014-06-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to allow an individual whose student loan debt is discharged due to undue hardship to recover the costs of, and a reasonable attorney's fee for, the discharge proceeding if the court finds that the position of the creditor was not substantially justified.</p>]]></summary-text>
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