HR 7730
Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026
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Bill overview
This bill adjusts the debt limits for individuals and small businesses filing for bankruptcy under Title 11 of the U.S. Code. Specifically, it raises the debt limit for small businesses engaged in commercial activities to $7.5 million, while lowering the debt limit for individual consumer bankruptcy filings to $2.75 million. The bill also makes changes to determine who qualifies as a ‘group of affiliated debtors’ in bankruptcy proceedings. These changes are intended to modify bankruptcy eligibility requirements.
Key provisions
- Raises the small business bankruptcy debt limit to $7,500,000.
- Lowers the consumer bankruptcy debt limit to $2,750,000.
- Defines ‘group of affiliated debtors’ for bankruptcy purposes.
- Excludes certain corporations and affiliates from the small business debt limit increase.
- Specifies that stockbrokers and commodity brokers are excluded from the consumer bankruptcy debt limit reduction.
Who is affected
- Small business owners
- Individuals filing for bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy attorneys
- Creditors
Notable changes
- Increases the debt limit for small business bankruptcy filings.
- Reduces the debt limit for individual consumer bankruptcy filings.
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119th CONGRESS — 2d Session
H. R. 7730
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend title 11, United States Code, to modify certain bankruptcy eligibility requirements, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026
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Section 1182(1) of title 11, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
The term debtor—
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
does not include—
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);
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
any debtor that is an affiliate of a corporation described in clause (ii).
Section 109 of title 11, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
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.
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.