Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3977 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 347
119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3977

  To amend title 11, United States Code, to modify certain bankruptcy
           eligibility requirements, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 2026

Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr.
 Graham, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; which was read
                             the first time

                             March 4, 2026

             Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL

  To amend title 11, United States Code, to modify certain bankruptcy
           eligibility requirements, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act
of 2026''.

SEC. 2. DEBT LIMIT MODIFICATIONS.

    (a) Modification to the Small Business Bankruptcy Debt Limit.--
Section 1182(1) of title 11, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
            ``(1) Debtor.--The term `debtor'--
                    ``(A) subject to subparagraph (B), means a person
                engaged in commercial or business activities (including
                any affiliate of such person that is also a debtor
                under this title and excluding a person whose primary
                activity is the business of owning single asset real
                estate) that has aggregate noncontingent liquidated
                secured and unsecured debts as of the date of the
                filing of the petition or the date of the order for
                relief in an amount not more than $7,500,000 (excluding
                debts owed to 1 or more affiliates or insiders) not
                less than 50 percent of which arose from the commercial
                or business activities of the debtor; and
                    ``(B) does not include--
                            ``(i) any member of a group of affiliated
                        debtors under this title that has aggregate
                        noncontingent liquidated secured and unsecured
                        debts in an amount greater than $7,500,000
                        (excluding debt owed to 1 or more affiliates or
                        insiders);
                            ``(ii) any debtor that is a corporation
                        subject to the reporting requirements under
                        section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
                        Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m, 78o(d)); or
                            ``(iii) any debtor that is an affiliate of
                        a corporation described in clause (ii).''.
    (b) Modification to the Consumer Bankruptcy Debt Limit.--Section
109 of title 11, United States Code is amended by striking subsection
(e) and inserting the following:
    ``(e) Only an individual with regular income that owes, on the date
of the filing of the petition, noncontingent, liquidated debts that
aggregate less than $2,750,000 or an individual with regular income and
such individual's spouse, except a stockbroker or a commodity broker,
that owe, on the date of the filing of the petition, noncontingent,
liquidated debts that aggregate less than $2,750,000 may be a debtor
under chapter 13 of this title.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to any case that is
commenced under title 11, United States Code, on or after the date of
enactment of this Act.
                                                       Calendar No. 347

119th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3977

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To amend title 11, United States Code, to modify certain bankruptcy
           eligibility requirements, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             March 4, 2026

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar