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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Op
Calendar No. 394
105TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 105-253
CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 1998
JULY 21, 1998.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HATCH, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany S. 1301]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 1301) to amend provisions of title 11 and title 18, United States
Code, to provide for consumer bankruptcy protection, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute, and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Background and need for the legislation ..................................................... 22
II. Committee and Subcommittee consideration in the 105th Congress ........ 30
III. Section-by-section analysis ............................................................................ 34
IV . C ost estim ate ................................................................................................. . 55
V . Regulatory im pact statem ent ........................................................................ 65
VI. Additional views of Senator Patrick Leahy ................................................. 66
VII. Additional views of Senator Herb Kohl ....................................................... 67
VIII. Additional views of Senators Richard J. Durbin, Russell D. Feingold,
Dianne Feinstein, Herb Kohl, and Robert G. Torricelli .......................... 69
IX. Additional views of Senator Richard J. Durbin ......................................... 73
X. Minority and dissenting views of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and
Senator R ussell D . Feingold ...................................................................... 77
XI. Changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported .............................. 99
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform
Act of 1998.
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