[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 729 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 729

    To amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to certain 
                 exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2015

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Franken, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Ms. Warren, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Kaine, 
 Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Ms. Hirono) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to certain 
                 exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy.

    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 ``Fairness for Struggling Students Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTIONS TO DISCHARGE.

    Section 523(a)(8) of title 11, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``dependents, for'' and all that follows through the end of 
subparagraph (B) and inserting ``dependents, for an educational benefit 
overpayment or loan made, insured, or guaranteed by a governmental unit 
or made under any program funded in whole or in part by a governmental 
unit or an obligation to repay funds received from a governmental unit 
as an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend;''.
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