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The PACT (Protecting All College Tuition) Act of 2015

H.R. 2267 · 114th Congress · May 12, 2015 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend title 11, United States Code, to provide an exception to the avoidance of transactions by bankruptcy trustee under section 548 where the transaction was a good faith payment by a parent of post secondary education tuition for that parent’s child.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “The PACT (Protecting All College Tuition) Act of 2015”.

Sec. 2 Exception to section 548 avoidance

Section 548 of title 11, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(f) A payment of tuition by a parent to an institution of higher education (as defined in either section 101 or 102 of the Higher Education Act) for the education of that parent’s child is not a transfer covered under paragraph (1)(B).”