[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1272 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1272

  To amend section 507(a)(3) of title 11, United States Code, to give 
   priority to certain claims of persons that are independent sales 
                            representatives.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 21 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

  Mr. Cochran introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 507(a)(3) of title 11, United States Code, to give 
   priority to certain claims of persons that are independent sales 
                            representatives.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Independent Sales Representatives 
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Definition.--Section 101 of title 11, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in the penultimate paragraph by striking ``and'' at the 
        end;
            (2) in the last paragraph by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(58) `independent sales representative' means a person 
        working as an independent contractor in the sale of 1 or more 
        lines of goods or services.''.
    (b) Priority.--Section 507(a)(3) of title 11, United States Code is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``an individual'' the 
        first place it appears and inserting ``a person (including an 
        independent sales representative that is not an employee)''; 
        and
            (2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ``individual'' and 
        inserting ``person''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Effective Date.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act 
and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    (b) Application of Amendments.--The amendments made by section 2 
shall not apply with respect to cases commenced under title 11, United 
States Code, before the date of enactment of this Act.

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