Congress states the Act raises total trustee pay to $120 a case
To amend titles 11 and 28, United States Code, to modify the compensation payable to trustees serving in cases under chapter 7 of title 11, United States Code, to extend the term of certain temporary offices of bankruptcy judges, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Congress states the Act raises total trustee pay to $120 a case
The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“increase the compensation of chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees to the level that is appropriate, overdue, and proportionate with the level that was intended in 1994, by increasing the total compensation of trustees to $120 per case;”
The first of three things the ninth finding says this Act and its amendments do. Congress states that the Act raises total chapter 7 trustee pay to $120 a case. Section 3 of the Act is where that change is made, by raising the section 330(b)(1) amount from $45 to $105.
What the document actually says
“increase the compensation of chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees to the level that is appropriate, overdue, and proportionate with the level that was intended in 1994, by increasing the total compensation of trustees to $120 per case;”
That sentence, in plain words
Congress says this law raises the pay. The new total is a hundred and twenty dollars a case.
What this is about
The old total was sixty dollars. Part three of the law makes the change. It is the part that does the work.
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Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025, Public Law 119-76, sec. 2, 140 Stat. 740 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ76/html/PLAW-119publ76.htm
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“Congress states the Act raises total trustee pay to $120 a case,” Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/bankruptcy-administration-improvement-act-2025/proposal/sec02-purpose-raise-pay-to-120/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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