[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 721 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 721

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 
                   railroad track maintenance credit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 
                   railroad track maintenance credit.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Building Rail Access for Customers 
and the Economy Act'' or the ``BRACE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE RAILROAD TRACK MAINTENANCE CREDIT.

    (a) In General.--Section 45G(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended by striking ``, and before January 1, 2017''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to expenditures paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after 
December 31, 2016.
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