---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1193"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1193"
heading: "Modification of plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1193"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter V — Small Business Debtor Reorganization"
---

# §1193. Modification of plan

- (a) **Modification Before Confirmation.—** The [debtor](/usc/11/1182.md?p=1) may modify a plan at any time before confirmation, but may not modify the plan so that the plan as modified fails to meet the requirements of sections [1122](/usc/11/1122.md) and [1123](/usc/11/1123.md) of this title, with the exception of [subsection (a)(8)](/usc/11/1123.md?p=a-8) of such section 1123. After the modification is filed with the court, the plan as modified becomes the plan.
- (b) **Modification After Confirmation.—** If a plan has been confirmed under [section 1191(a) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=a), the [debtor](/usc/11/1182.md?p=1) may modify the plan at any time after confirmation of the plan and before [substantial consummation](/usc/11/1101.md?p=2) of the plan, but may not modify the plan so that the plan as modified fails to meet the requirements of sections [1122](/usc/11/1122.md) and [1123](/usc/11/1123.md) of this title, with the exception of [subsection (a)(8)](/usc/11/1123.md?p=a-8) of such section 1123. The plan, as modified under this subsection, becomes the plan only if circumstances warrant the modification and the court, after notice and a hearing, confirms the plan as modified under [section 1191(a) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=a).
- (c) **Certain Other Modifications.—** If a plan has been confirmed under [section 1191(b) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=b), the [debtor](/usc/11/1182.md?p=1) may modify the plan at any time within 3 years, or such longer time not to exceed 5 years, as fixed by the court, but may not modify the plan so that the plan as modified fails to meet the requirements of [section 1191(b) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=b). The plan as modified under this subsection becomes the plan only if circumstances warrant such modification and the court, after notice and a hearing, confirms such plan, as modified, under [section 1191(b) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=b).
- (d) **Holders of a Claim or Interest.—** If a plan has been confirmed under [section 1191(a) of this title](/usc/11/1191.md?p=a), any holder of a [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) or interest that has accepted or rejected the plan is deemed to have accepted or rejected, as the case may be, the plan as modified, unless, within the time fixed by the court, such holder changes the previous acceptance or rejection of the holder.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–54, § 2(a), Aug. 23, 2019, 133 Stat. 1083.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Aug. 23, 2019, see section 5 of Pub. L. 116–54, set out as an Effective Date of 2019 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.