---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 307"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "307"
heading: "United States trustee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/307"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Case Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — Commencement of a Case"
---

# §307. United States trustee


The [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55) trustee may raise and may appear and be heard on any issue in any case or proceeding under this title but may not file a plan pursuant to [section 1121(c) of this title](/usc/11/1121.md?p=c).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–554, title II, § 205(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3098.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Effective date and applicability of section dependent upon the judicial district involved, see section 302(d), (e) of Pub. L. 99–554, set out as a note under section 581 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

### Standing and Authority of Bankruptcy Administrator

Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 317(b), Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5115, provided that: “A bankruptcy administrator may raise and may appear and be heard on any issue in any case under title 11, United States Code, but may not file a plan pursuant to section 1121(c) of such title.”