To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain amounts received by electric energy, gas, or steam utilities shall be excluded from gross income as contributions to capital.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income as contributions to capital certain amounts received by electric energy, gas, steam, or water utilities. (Currently, the exclusion applies to water and sewage disposal utilities.)

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[H.R. 2464 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2464

  To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain 
 amounts received by electric energy, gas, or steam utilities shall be 
        excluded from gross income as contributions to capital.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 1999

 Mr. Watkins (for himself, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Crane, Mr. Herger, and Mr. 
  Traficant) 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 provide that certain 
 amounts received by electric energy, gas, or steam utilities shall be 
        excluded from gross income as contributions to capital.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN AMOUNTS RECEIVED BY ELECTRIC ENERGY, GAS, OR STEAM 
              UTILITIES EXCLUDED FROM GROSS INCOME AS CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
              CAPITAL.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (c) of section 118 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to special rules for water and sewerage 
disposal utilities) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``Water and Sewerage 
        Disposal'' and inserting ``Certain'',
            (2) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``water or'' and inserting ``electric energy, 
                gas (through a local distribution system or 
                transportation by pipeline), steam, water, or'', and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``water or'' 
                and inserting ``electric energy, gas, steam, water, 
                or'',
            (3) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking ``water or'' and 
        inserting ``electric energy, gas, steam, water, or'', and
            (4) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``such term 
                shall include amounts paid as customer connection fees 
                (including amounts paid to connect the customer's line 
                to an electric line, a gas main, a steam line, or a 
                main water or sewer line) and'' after ``except that'', 
                and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``water or'' 
                and inserting ``electric energy, gas, steam, water, 
                or''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to amounts received after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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