[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1262 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1262

    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

                              May 25, 2017

 Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Franken, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Ms. Hirono, Ms. Warren, Mr. Reed, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Hassan, 
  Mr. Kaine, and Mr. Murphy) 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 2017''.

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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