Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014

Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law, with respect to the prohibition against disruption of utility services to a debtor, to declare that an individual debtor may not be required to furnish assurance of payment if he or she pays, within 20 days after the date of the order for relief, those debts owed to a utility for service during that period, and afterward also pays when due debts owed for service during the pendency of the case in bankruptcy.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5132 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5132

   To amend title 11 of the United States Code to dispense with the 
  requirement of providing assurance of payment for utility services 
                      under certain circumstances.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2014

Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. 
   Norton, and Ms. Lofgren) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 11 of the United States Code to dispense with the 
  requirement of providing assurance of payment for utility services 
                      under certain circumstances.

    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 ``Preventing Termination of Utility 
Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 366 of title 11, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section in a case 
in which the debtor is an individual, if the debtor pays in the 20-day 
period beginning on the date of the order for relief debts owed to a 
utility for service provided during such period and thereafter pays 
when due debts owed to such utility for service provided during the 
pendency of the case, then the debtor may not be required to furnish 
assurance of payment.''.
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