[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 72 (Thursday, May 26, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6039-S6042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Baucus, Mr. 
        Burns, Mr. Schumer,  Mr. Bunning, and Ms. Cantwell):
  S. 1147. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide 
for the expensing of broadband Internet access expenditures, and for 
other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
  Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I am introducing legislation that 
would accelerate the deployment of advanced broadband internet access 
technologies in rural and underserved regions. This bipartisan 
legislation is very similar to bills that I have introduced in the last 
several Congresses. I want to thank Senators Snowe, Baucus, Burns, 
Schumer, Cantwell, and Bunning for co-sponsoring this bill.
  The convergence of computing and communications has fundamentally and 
forever changed the way Americans live and work. Individuals, 
businesses, schools, libraries, hospitals, and many others share 
information through computer networks. We shop online. Some of us work 
at home, or in other locations, using networked computers to interact 
with our colleagues and associates. Distance learning and telemedicine 
provide important services in remote locations. In our personal lives 
we look to our networked computers for entertainment and to communicate 
with family and friends. These trends are accelerating dramatically.
  A decade ago, telephone-based low-bandwidth services met most of our 
limited data communications needs. Today this technology is obsolete. 
Most businesses and many individuals find that they require the ability 
to transmit information much faster, using what is commonly known as 
broadband communications. Several technologies compete to provide 
customers with broadband communications. Among the most prominent are 
optical fiber, wireless, digital-subscriber lines, cable modems, power 
line transmission, and satellites.
  Indeed, as the need for faster services compounds, the technologies 
must be improved and even the definition of broadband communications 
must be revised and updated. The now-obsolete telephone-based systems 
transmit data at up to 56 thousand bits per second. Today, internet 
service providers commonly install first generation broadband systems 
that transmit data at rates between 256 thousand bits per second and 4 
million bits per second. But we can now see clearly that these current-
generation systems will be superseded by second-generation systems, 
already being installed in a few areas, which operate at data rates of 
up to 30 million bits per second. In other countries, services that 
transmit and receive data at 100 million bits per second are already 
available to individuals. Some industry experts predict that within 5 
to 10 years there will be a substantial demand for systems that operate 
at 1 billion bits per second.
  Despite the industry downturn over the past few years, America's 
telecommunications providers are working to make higher speed 
communications more widely available. Progress is fastest, and the 
business case for investment is most attractive, in affluent urban and 
suburban areas, especially newly developing areas. Rural areas are less 
fortunate. Low population densities, rugged terrain, and other factors 
make these areas difficult and expensive to serve. Similarly, the 
business case for providers to invest in underserved areas, mostly low 
income areas, is generally weak.
  As was the case with electric power and telephone systems in the 20th 
century, financial incentives will be necessary to assure the extension 
of broadband communications infrastructure into rural and underserved 
regions. These incentives will also provide a substantial benefit to 
the American economy. In the same way that extending electric power 
systems into rural areas stimulated a new demand for electric 
appliances and other products, the wider availability of broadband 
communications will stimulate electronic commerce and new commercial 
services.
  For my State of West Virginia, and other rural and low income States, 
the availability of advanced communications systems will allow 
residents to participate in the 21st century economy and have access to 
the economic and cultural benefits of urban living while retaining 
their cherished rural values and lifestyles.
  The consequences of failing to act are serious. Businesses in 
infrastructure-rich regions will prosper at the expense of those in 
rural and underserved regions. New businesses will locate where the 
information infrastructure is strong. The migration of jobs to urban 
and affluent areas will accelerate and tax revenue in rural and 
underserved areas will continue to decline. Residents of West Virginia 
and other rural states will continue to be at an economic and 
educational disadvantage. The ``digital divide'' will widen and the gap 
between ``have'' and ``have-not'' regions will expand.
  Decisions on how this country chooses to deploy information 
technology have the power to fundamentally transform the future of 
rural America. I firmly believe, and I am sure this view is shared by 
many of my colleagues, that rural communities deserve the same 
opportunities as their wealthier urban and suburban counterparts. We 
must make a commitment to them now, while there is still time, that 
their communications infrastructure will not always be a generation or 
more behind that of urban and suburban areas.
  My bill would provide incentives for broadband deployment by allowing 
providers, under certain conditions, to treat their investments in 
broadband technologies as current-tax-year expenses. Under my 
legislation, the incentives provided by this bill would be 
differentiated to favor investments in technologies that will continue 
to meet communications needs further into the future.
  Half of investments in systems that permit data to be received at 
rates of 1.0 million bits per second and transmitted at rates of 128 
thousand bits per second would qualify. This is a substantial incentive 
to provide residents of rural and underserved areas the capabilities 
already enjoyed by individuals and businesses in urban and suburban 
areas.
  Investments in systems that permit data to be received at 22 million 
bits per second and transmitted at 5 million bits per second would 
fully qualify. This more powerful incentive challenges internet service 
providers to provide the capabilities that they have already begun to 
introduce in urban and suburban areas. Forward-looking

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providers will use this opportunity to invest in technologies that can 
be upgraded further as the demand grows.
  Americans believe strongly in equal opportunity. This bill is just 
one part of an effort to make sure that all Americans have equal access 
to modern communications systems and the opportunities that those 
systems are bringing in the 21st century.
  I hope that the Members of this body will support this important 
legislation.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 1147

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

     SECTION 1. EXPENSING OF BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS 
                   EXPENDITURES.

       (a) In General.--Part VI of subchapter B of chapter 1 of 
     the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to itemized 
     deductions for individuals and corporations) is amended by 
     inserting after section 190 the following new section:

     ``SEC. 191. BROADBAND EXPENDITURES.

       ``(a) Treatment of Expenditures.--
       ``(1) In general.--A taxpayer may elect to treat any 
     qualified broadband expenditure which is paid or incurred by 
     the taxpayer as an expense which is not chargeable to capital 
     account. Any expenditure which is so treated shall be allowed 
     as a deduction.
       ``(2) Election.--An election under paragraph (1) shall be 
     made at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may 
     prescribe by regulation.
       ``(b) Qualified Broadband Expenditures.--For purposes of 
     this section--
       ``(1) In general.--The term `qualified broadband 
     expenditure' means, with respect to any taxable year, any 
     direct or indirect costs incurred after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and before the date which is 10 years 
     after such date and properly taken into account with respect 
     to--
       ``(A) the purchase or installation of qualified equipment 
     (including any upgrades thereto), and
       ``(B) the connection of such qualified equipment to any 
     qualified subscriber.
       ``(2) Certain satellite expenditures excluded.--Such term 
     shall not include any costs incurred with respect to the 
     launching of any satellite equipment.
       ``(3) Leased equipment.--Such term shall include so much of 
     the purchase price paid by the lessor of qualified equipment 
     subject to a lease described in subsection (c)(2)(B) as is 
     attributable to expenditures incurred by the lessee which 
     would otherwise be described in paragraph (1).
       ``(4) Limitation with regard to current generation 
     broadband services.--Only 50 percent of the amounts taken 
     into account under paragraph (1) with respect to qualified 
     equipment through which current generation broadband services 
     are provided shall be treated as qualified broadband 
     expenditures.
       ``(c) When Expenditures Taken Into Account.--For purposes 
     of this section--
       ``(1) In general.--Qualified broadband expenditures with 
     respect to qualified equipment shall be taken into account 
     with respect to the first taxable year in which--
       ``(A) current generation broadband services are provided 
     through such equipment to qualified subscribers, or
       ``(B) next generation broadband services are provided 
     through such equipment to qualified subscribers.
       ``(2) Limitation.--
       ``(A) In general.--Qualified expenditures shall be taken 
     into account under paragraph (1) only with respect to 
     qualified equipment--
       ``(i) the original use of which commences with the 
     taxpayer, and
       ``(ii) which is placed in service, after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       ``(B) Sale-leasebacks.--For purposes of subparagraph (A), 
     if property--
       ``(i) is originally placed in service after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act by any person, and
       ``(ii) sold and leased back by such person within 3 months 
     after the date such property was originally placed in 
     service,

     such property shall be treated as originally placed in 
     service not earlier than the date on which such property is 
     used under the leaseback referred to in clause (ii).
       ``(d) Special Allocation Rules.--
       ``(1) Current generation broadband services.--For purposes 
     of determining the amount of qualified broadband expenditures 
     under subsection (a)(1) with respect to qualified equipment 
     through which current generation broadband services are 
     provided, if the qualified equipment is capable of serving 
     both qualified subscribers and other subscribers, the 
     qualified broadband expenditures shall be multiplied by a 
     fraction--
       ``(A) the numerator of which is the sum of the number of 
     potential qualified subscribers within the rural areas and 
     the underserved areas which the equipment is capable of 
     serving with current generation broadband services, and
       ``(B) the denominator of which is the total potential 
     subscriber population of the area which the equipment is 
     capable of serving with current generation broadband 
     services.
       ``(2) Next generation broadband services.--For purposes of 
     determining the amount of qualified broadband expenditures 
     under subsection (a)(1) with respect to qualified equipment 
     through which next generation broadband services are 
     provided, if the qualified equipment is capable of serving 
     both qualified subscribers and other subscribers, the 
     qualified expenditures shall be multiplied by a fraction--
       ``(A) the numerator of which is the sum of--
       ``(i) the number of potential qualified subscribers within 
     the rural areas and underserved areas, plus
       ``(ii) the number of potential qualified subscribers within 
     the area consisting only of residential subscribers not 
     described in clause (i),

     which the equipment is capable of serving with next 
     generation broadband services, and
       ``(B) the denominator of which is the total potential 
     subscriber population of the area which the equipment is 
     capable of serving with next generation broadband services.
       ``(e) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       ``(1) Antenna.--The term `antenna' means any device used to 
     transmit or receive signals through the electromagnetic 
     spectrum, including satellite equipment.
       ``(2) Cable operator.--The term `cable operator' has the 
     meaning given such term by section 602(5) of the 
     Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522(5)).
       ``(3) Commercial mobile service carrier.--The term 
     `commercial mobile service carrier' means any person 
     authorized to provide commercial mobile radio service as 
     defined in section 20.3 of title 47, Code of Federal 
     Regulations.
       ``(4) Current generation broadband service.--The term 
     `current generation broadband service' means the transmission 
     of signals at a rate of at least 1,000,000 bits per second to 
     the subscriber and at least 128,000 bits per second from the 
     subscriber.
       ``(5) Multiplexing or demultiplexing.--The term 
     `multiplexing' means the transmission of 2 or more signals 
     over a single channel, and the term `demultiplexing' means 
     the separation of 2 or more signals previously combined by 
     compatible multiplexing equipment.
       ``(6) Next generation broadband service.--The term `next 
     generation broadband service' means the transmission of 
     signals at a rate of at least 22,000,000 bits per second to 
     the subscriber and at least 5,000,000 bits per second from 
     the subscriber.
       ``(7) Nonresidential subscriber.--The term `nonresidential 
     subscriber' means any person who purchases broadband services 
     which are delivered to the permanent place of business of 
     such person.
       ``(8) Open video system operator.--The term `open video 
     system operator' means any person authorized to provide 
     service under section 653 of the Communications Act of 1934 
     (47 U.S.C. 573).
       ``(9) Other wireless carrier.--The term `other wireless 
     carrier' means any person (other than a telecommunications 
     carrier, commercial mobile service carrier, cable operator, 
     open video system operator, or satellite carrier) providing 
     current generation broadband services or next generation 
     broadband service to subscribers through the radio 
     transmission of energy.
       ``(10) Packet switching.--The term `packet switching' means 
     controlling or routing the path of any digitized transmission 
     signal which is assembled into packets or cells.
       ``(11) Provider.--The term `provider' means, with respect 
     to any qualified equipment--
       ``(A) a cable operator,
       ``(B) a commercial mobile service carrier,
       ``(C) an open video system operator,
       ``(D) a satellite carrier,
       ``(E) a telecommunications carrier, or
       ``(F) any other wireless carrier,

     providing current generation broadband services or next 
     generation broadband services to subscribers through such 
     qualified equipment.
       ``(12) Provision of services.--A provider shall be treated 
     as providing services to 1 or more subscribers if--
       ``(A) such a subscriber has been passed by the provider's 
     equipment and can be connected to such equipment for a 
     standard connection fee,
       ``(B) the provider is physically able to deliver current 
     generation broadband services or next generation broadband 
     services, as applicable, to such a subscriber without making 
     more than an insignificant investment with respect to such 
     subscriber,
       ``(C) the provider has made reasonable efforts to make such 
     subscribers aware of the availability of such services,
       ``(D) such services have been purchased by 1 or more such 
     subscribers, and
       ``(E) such services are made available to such subscribers 
     at average prices comparable to those at which the provider 
     makes available similar services in any areas in which the 
     provider makes available such services.
       ``(13) Qualified equipment.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `qualified equipment' means 
     equipment which provides current generation broadband 
     services or next generation broadband services--
       ``(i) at least a majority of the time during periods of 
     maximum demand to each subscriber who is utilizing such 
     services, and
       ``(ii) in a manner substantially the same as such services 
     are provided by the provider to subscribers through equipment 
     with respect to which no deduction is allowed under 
     subsection (a)(1).

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       ``(B) Only certain investment taken into account.--Except 
     as provided in subparagraph (C) or (D), equipment shall be 
     taken into account under subparagraph (A) only to the extent 
     it--
       ``(i) extends from the last point of switching to the 
     outside of the unit, building, dwelling, or office owned or 
     leased by a subscriber in the case of a telecommunications 
     carrier,
       ``(ii) extends from the customer side of the mobile 
     telephone switching office to a transmission/receive antenna 
     (including such antenna) owned or leased by a subscriber in 
     the case of a commercial mobile service carrier,
       ``(iii) extends from the customer side of the headend to 
     the outside of the unit, building, dwelling, or office owned 
     or leased by a subscriber in the case of a cable operator or 
     open video system operator, or
       ``(iv) extends from a transmission/receive antenna 
     (including such antenna) which transmits and receives signals 
     to or from multiple subscribers, to a transmission/receive 
     antenna (including such antenna) on the outside of the unit, 
     building, dwelling, or office owned or leased by a subscriber 
     in the case of a satellite carrier or other wireless carrier, 
     unless such other wireless carrier is also a 
     telecommunications carrier.
       ``(C) Packet switching equipment.--Packet switching 
     equipment, regardless of location, shall be taken into 
     account under subparagraph (A) only if it is deployed in 
     connection with equipment described in subparagraph (B) and 
     is uniquely designed to perform the function of packet 
     switching for current generation broadband services or next 
     generation broadband services, but only if such packet 
     switching is the last in a series of such functions performed 
     in the transmission of a signal to a subscriber or the first 
     in a series of such functions performed in the transmission 
     of a signal from a subscriber.
       ``(D) Multiplexing and demultiplexing equipment.--
     Multiplexing and demultiplexing equipment shall be taken into 
     account under subparagraph (A) only to the extent it is 
     deployed in connection with equipment described in 
     subparagraph (B) and is uniquely designed to perform the 
     function of multiplexing and demultiplexing packets or cells 
     of data and making associated application adaptions, but only 
     if such multiplexing or demultiplexing equipment is located 
     between packet switching equipment described in subparagraph 
     (C) and the subscriber's premises.
       ``(14) Qualified subscriber.--The term `qualified 
     subscriber' means--
       ``(A) with respect to the provision of current generation 
     broadband services--
       ``(i) any nonresidential subscriber maintaining a permanent 
     place of business in a rural area or underserved area, or
       ``(ii) any residential subscriber residing in a dwelling 
     located in a rural area or underserved area which is not a 
     saturated market, and
       ``(B) with respect to the provision of next generation 
     broadband services--
       ``(i) any nonresidential subscriber maintaining a permanent 
     place of business in a rural area or underserved area, or
       ``(ii) any residential subscriber.
       ``(15) Residential subscriber.--The term `residential 
     subscriber' means any individual who purchases broadband 
     services which are delivered to such individual's dwelling.
       ``(16) Rural area.--The term `rural area' means any census 
     tract which--
       ``(A) is not within 10 miles of any incorporated or census 
     designated place containing more than 25,000 people, and
       ``(B) is not within a county or county equivalent which has 
     an overall population density of more than 500 people per 
     square mile of land.
       ``(17) Rural subscriber.--The term `rural subscriber' means 
     any residential subscriber residing in a dwelling located in 
     a rural area or nonresidential subscriber maintaining a 
     permanent place of business located in a rural area.
       ``(18) Satellite carrier.--The term `satellite carrier' 
     means any person using the facilities of a satellite or 
     satellite service licensed by the Federal Communications 
     Commission and operating in the Fixed-Satellite Service under 
     part 25 of title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations or the 
     Direct Broadcast Satellite Service under part 100 of title 47 
     of such Code to establish and operate a channel of 
     communications for distribution of signals, and owning or 
     leasing a capacity or service on a satellite in order to 
     provide such point-to-multipoint distribution.
       ``(19) Saturated market.--The term `saturated market' means 
     any census tract in which, as of the date of the enactment of 
     this section--
       ``(A) current generation broadband services have been 
     provided by a single provider to 85 percent or more of the 
     total number of potential residential subscribers residing in 
     dwellings located within such census tract, and
       ``(B) such services can be utilized--
       ``(i) at least a majority of the time during periods of 
     maximum demand by each such subscriber who is utilizing such 
     services, and
       ``(ii) in a manner substantially the same as such services 
     are provided by the provider to subscribers through equipment 
     with respect to which no deduction is allowed under 
     subsection (a)(1).
       ``(20) Subscriber.--The term `subscriber' means any person 
     who purchases current generation broadband services or next 
     generation broadband services.
       ``(21) Telecommunications carrier.--The term 
     `telecommunications carrier' has the meaning given such term 
     by section 3(44) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
     153(44)), but--
       ``(A) includes all members of an affiliated group of which 
     a telecommunications carrier is a member, and
       ``(B) does not include a commercial mobile service carrier.
       ``(22) Total potential subscriber population.--The term 
     `total potential subscriber population' means, with respect 
     to any area and based on the most recent census data, the 
     total number of potential residential subscribers residing in 
     dwellings located in such area and potential nonresidential 
     subscribers maintaining permanent places of business located 
     in such area.
       ``(23) Underserved area.--The term `underserved area' 
     means--
       ``(A) any census tract which is located in--
       ``(i) an empowerment zone or enterprise community 
     designated under section 1391, or
       ``(ii) the District of Columbia Enterprise Zone established 
     under section 1400, or
       ``(B) any census tract--
       ``(i) the poverty level of which is at least 30 percent 
     (based on the most recent census data), and
       ``(ii) the median family income of which does not exceed--

       ``(I) in the case of a census tract located in a 
     metropolitan statistical area, 70 percent of the greater of 
     the metropolitan area median family income or the statewide 
     median family income, and
       ``(II) in the case of a census tract located in a 
     nonmetropolitan statistical area, 70 percent of the 
     nonmetropolitan statewide median family income.

       ``(24) Underserved subscriber.--The term `underserved 
     subscriber' means any residential subscriber residing in a 
     dwelling located in an underserved area or nonresidential 
     subscriber maintaining a permanent place of business located 
     in an underserved area.
       ``(f) Special Rules.--
       ``(1) Property used outside the united states, etc., not 
     qualified.--No expenditures shall be taken into account under 
     subsection (a)(1) with respect to the portion of the cost of 
     any property referred to in section 50(b) or with respect to 
     the portion of the cost of any property specified in an 
     election under section 179.
       ``(2) Basis reduction.--
       ``(A) In general.--For purposes of this title, the basis of 
     any property shall be reduced by the portion of the cost of 
     such property taken into account under subsection (a)(1).
       ``(B) Ordinary income recapture.--For purposes of section 
     1245, the amount of the deduction allowable under subsection 
     (a)(1) with respect to any property which is of a character 
     subject to the allowance for depreciation shall be treated as 
     a deduction allowed for depreciation under section 167.
       ``(3) Coordination with section 38.--No credit shall be 
     allowed under section 38 with respect to any amount for which 
     a deduction is allowed under subsection (a)(1).''.
       (b) Special Rule for Mutual or Cooperative Telephone 
     Companies.--Section 512(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 (relating to modifications) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new paragraph:
       ``(18) Special rule for mutual or cooperative telephone 
     companies.--A mutual or cooperative telephone company which 
     for the taxable year satisfies the requirements of section 
     501(c)(12)(A) may elect to reduce its unrelated business 
     taxable income for such year, if any, by an amount that does 
     not exceed the qualified broadband expenditures which would 
     be taken into account under section 191 for such year by such 
     company if such company was not exempt from taxation. Any 
     amount which is allowed as a deduction under this paragraph 
     shall not be allowed as a deduction under section 191 and the 
     basis of any property to which this paragraph applies shall 
     be reduced under section 1016(a)(32).''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 263(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     (relating to capital expenditures) is amended by striking 
     ``or'' at the end of subparagraph (H), by striking the period 
     at the end of subparagraph (I) and inserting ``, or'', and by 
     adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(J) expenditures for which a deduction is allowed under 
     section 191.''.
       (2) Section 1016(a) of such Code is amended by striking 
     ``and'' at the end of paragraph (30), by striking the period 
     at the end of paragraph (31) and inserting ``, and'', and by 
     adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(32) to the extent provided in section 191(f)(2).''.
       (3) The table of sections for part VI of subchapter A of 
     chapter 1 of such Code is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 190 the following new item:

``Sec. 191. Broadband expenditures.''.

       (d) Designation of Census Tracts.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall, not 
     later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, designate and publish those census tracts meeting the 
     criteria described in paragraphs (16), (22), and (23) of 
     section 191(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added 
     by this section). In making such designations, the Secretary 
     of the Treasury shall consult with such other departments and 
     agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate.
       (2) Saturated market.--

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       (A) In general.--For purposes of designating and publishing 
     those census tracts meeting the criteria described in 
     subsection (e)(19) of such section 191--
       (i) the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe not later 
     than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act the 
     form upon which any provider which takes the position that it 
     meets such criteria with respect to any census tract shall 
     submit a list of such census tracts (and any other 
     information required by the Secretary) not later than 60 days 
     after the date of the publication of such form, and
       (ii) the Secretary of the Treasury shall publish an 
     aggregate list of such census tracts and the applicable 
     providers not later than 30 days after the last date such 
     submissions are allowed under clause (i).
       (B) No subsequent lists required.--The Secretary of the 
     Treasury shall not be required to publish any list of census 
     tracts meeting such criteria subsequent to the list described 
     in subparagraph (A)(ii).
       (e) Other Regulatory Matters.--
       (1) Prohibition.--No Federal or State agency or 
     instrumentality shall adopt regulations or ratemaking 
     procedures that would have the effect of eliminating or 
     reducing any deduction or portion thereof allowed under 
     section 191 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by 
     this section) or otherwise subverting the purpose of this 
     section.
       (2) Treasury regulatory authority.--It is the intent of 
     Congress in providing the election to deduct qualified 
     broadband expenditures under section 191 of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by this section) to provide 
     incentives for the purchase, installation, and connection of 
     equipment and facilities offering expanded broadband access 
     to the Internet for users in certain low income and rural 
     areas of the United States, as well as to residential users 
     nationwide, in a manner that maintains competitive neutrality 
     among the various classes of providers of broadband services. 
     Accordingly, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe 
     such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry 
     out the purposes of section 191 of such Code, including--
       (A) regulations to determine how and when a taxpayer that 
     incurs qualified broadband expenditures satisfies the 
     requirements of section 191 of such Code to provide broadband 
     services, and
       (B) regulations describing the information, records, and 
     data taxpayers are required to provide the Secretary to 
     substantiate compliance with the requirements of section 191 
     of such Code.
       (f) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to expenditures incurred after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
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