Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-721
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-04
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits

Railroads
Latest action: action_date: 2015-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-02-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015</strong></p> <p> Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for railroad track maintenance, to: (1) expand the types of maintenance expenditures eligible for such credit, and (2) extend such credit through 2016.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 721 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 4, 2015 Ms. Jenkins of Kansas (for herself, Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois , and Mr. Lipinski ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the railroad track maintenance credit.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Short Line Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2015 . 2. Extension and modification of Railroad Track Maintenance Credit (a) Extension of credit Section 45G(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking January 1, 2015 and inserting January 1, 2017 . (b) Expenditures Subsection (d) of section 45G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures) is amended by striking for maintaining and all that follows and inserting for maintaining— (A) in the case of taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004, and before January 1, 2015, railroad track (including roadbed, bridges, and related track structures) owned or leased as of January 1, 2005, by a Class II or Class III railroad (determined without regard to any consideration for such expenditures given by the Class II or Class III railroad which made the assignment of such track), and (B) in the case of taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014, railroad track (including roadbed, bridges, and related track structures) owned or leased as of January 1, 2015, by a Class II or Class III railroad (determined without regard to any consideration for such expenditures given by the Class II or Class III railroad which made the assignment of such track). . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014.