Bill Text: MI HB4600 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Property tax; exemptions; total exemption for principal residence of spouse of servicemember killed while serving in the military; provide for. Amends 1893 PA 206 (MCL 211.1 - 211.155) by adding sec. 7uu.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Printed Bill Filed 04/24/2013 [HB4600 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4600-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4600

 

April 23, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Graves, Ananich, Brown, Potvin, Yanez and Rendon and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1893 PA 206, entitled

 

"The general property tax act,"

 

(MCL 211.1 to 211.155) by adding section 7uu.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 7uu. (1) The principal residence of the unremarried

 

surviving spouse of a person killed while serving in the armed

 

forces of the United States is exempt from the collection of taxes

 

under this act.

 

     (2) An unremarried surviving spouse may claim an exemption

 

under this section by submitting a form prescribed by the

 

department of treasury to the assessor of the local tax collecting

 

unit in which the surviving spouse's principal residence is located

 

within 7 years after his or her spouse is killed while serving in

 

the armed forces of the United States.

 

     (3) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Principal residence" means property exempt as provided

 

under section 7cc.

 

     (b) "Surviving spouse" means a person to whom a person killed

 

while serving in the armed forces of the United States was lawfully

 

married at the time of his or her death.