On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law  held a hearing on H.R. 4044, an amendment to BAPCPA that  would exclude National Guard members and Military Reservists from being subjected to the Means Test while on active duty and for 6 months thereafter.
 
This is a bipartisan bill,  sponsored by Reps. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).  The purpose of the bill is to address the is the persistence of a the income that a military debtor may have received while on active duty in that debtor's Current Monthly Income, when the debtor may not actually have such income currently.
 
The first witnesses were Representatives Schakowsky and Rohrabacher.

 
The second panel included Ed Boltz, a NACBA member from North Carolina and member of the Board, Raymond Kelley from Amvets,  and Professor Jack Williams from ABI. The testimony from all three members of the second panel focused on the fact that this Amendment would be a very narrow change, affecting a small number of deserving debtors, and that it was consistent with the exclusion of disabled veterans from the Means Test in 707 (b)(2)(D).
 
The written statements from the witnesses are available at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings.aspx?ID=197