REPAYMENT REQUIREMENTS UNDER RESERVE COMPONENT MONTGOMERY GI BILL ARISING FROM FAILURE TO PARTICIPATE SATISFACTORILY IN MILITARY SERVICE TO BE CONSIDERED DEBTS OWED TO THE UNITED STATES.

SEC. 642. REPAYMENT REQUIREMENTS UNDER RESERVE COMPONENT MONTGOMERY GI BILL ARISING FROM FAILURE TO PARTICIPATE SATISFACTORILY IN MILITARY SERVICE TO BE CONSIDERED DEBTS OWED TO THE UNITED STATES. Section 16135 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(c)(1) Subject to subsection (a)(2), an obligation to pay a refund to the United States under subsection (a)(1)(B) in an amount determined under subsection (b) is, for all purposes, a debt owed to the United States. “(2) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 that is entered less than five years after the termination of an enlistment or other agreement under this section does not discharge the person signing such enlistment or other agreement from a debt arising under the enlistment or agreement, respectively, under this subsection.”.