I 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 2872 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require adjusted financial statement income to be reduced by the amount of certain deductions relating to repair and maintenance of certain public utility property. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL10, 2025 Mrs. M ILLERof West Virginia (for herself and Mr. SCHNEIDER) 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 require adjusted financial statement income to be reduced by the amount of certain deductions relating to repair and maintenance of certain public utility property. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Repair Expenditures 4 Support Infrastructure, Labor Investment, Energy Needs, 5 and Creates Equity Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘RESILIENCE 6 Act of 2025’’. 7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:45 Apr 25, 2025 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2872.IH H2872 mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB 2 •HR 2872 IH SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF ADJUSTED FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1 INCOME WITH RESPECT TO APPLICABLE 2 PUBLIC UTILITY REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE 3 OF PUBLIC UTILITY PROPERTY. 4 (a) I NGENERAL.—Section 56A(c)(13) of the Inter-5 nal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows: 6 ‘‘(13) D EPRECIATION.— 7 ‘‘(A) I N GENERAL.—Adjusted financial 8 statement income shall be— 9 ‘‘(i) reduced by— 10 ‘‘(I) depreciation deductions al-11 lowed under section 167 with respect 12 to property to which section 168 ap-13 plies to the extent of the amount al-14 lowed as deductions in computing tax-15 able income for the taxable year, and 16 ‘‘(II) applicable public utility re-17 pair and maintenance deductions al-18 lowed under section 162 with respect 19 to property to which section 168 ap-20 plies to the extent of the amount al-21 lowed as deductions in computing tax-22 able income for the taxable year, and 23 ‘‘(ii) appropriately adjusted— 24 ‘‘(I) to disregard any amount of 25 depreciation expense that is taken into 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:45 Apr 25, 2025 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2872.IH H2872 mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB 3 •HR 2872 IH account on the taxpayer’s applicable 1 financial statement with respect to 2 such property, and 3 ‘‘(II) to take into account any 4 other item specified by the Secretary 5 in order to provide that such property 6 is accounted for in the same manner 7 as it is accounted for under this chap-8 ter. 9 ‘‘(B) A PPLICABLE PUBLIC UTILITY REPAIR 10 AND MAINTENANCE DEDUCTIONS .—For pur-11 poses of this paragraph, the term ‘applicable 12 public utility repair and maintenance deduc-13 tions’ means repair and maintenance deductions 14 allowed to a taxpayer with respect to expendi-15 tures which are— 16 ‘‘(i) incurred by such taxpayer with 17 respect to any property described in sec-18 tion 168(i)(10) which is owned by such 19 taxpayer, and 20 ‘‘(ii) taken into account as a deprecia-21 tion expense on the taxpayer’s applicable 22 financial statement with respect to such 23 property.’’. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:45 Apr 25, 2025 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2872.IH H2872 mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB 4 •HR 2872 IH (b) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 1 this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 2 December 31, 2024. 3 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:45 Apr 25, 2025 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H2872.IH H2872 mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB