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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
110TH CONGRESS
2d Session
SENATE
Calendar No. 911
REPORT
110-514
HELPING FAMILIES SAVE THEIR HOMES IN BANKRUPTCY
ACT OF 2008
SEPTEMBER 26 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. LEAHY, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany S. 2136]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2136), to address the treatment of primary mortgages in bank-
ruptcy, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon, with an amendment, and recommends that the
bill, as amended, do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Background and Purpose of the Helping Families Save Their Homes
in Bankruptcy Act of 2008 ....................................................................... 2
II. History of the Bill and Committee Consideration ....................................... 7
III. Section-by-Section Summary of the Bill .................................................... 9
IV. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................... 13
V. Regulatory Im pact Statem ent ...................................................................... 16
V I. C onclusion ..................................................................................................... . 16
VII. Minority Views of Senators Specter, Hatch, Grassley, Kyl, Brownback,
Cornyn and Coburn .................................................................................... 17
VIII. Changes to Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ........................... 23
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