Bill Text: PA HB2648 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for exemption.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 41-17)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-07-13 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB2648 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2648-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4105
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2648 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY QUINN, BOBACK, FAIRCHILD, MELIO, BEYER, ADOLPH, BARRAR, BENNINGHOFF, DAY, DENLINGER, EVERETT, FARRY, FLECK, FREEMAN, GALLOWAY, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHAI, HARHART, HELM, HORNAMAN, KAUFFMAN, KILLION, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, LENTZ, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MILNE, OBERLANDER, O'NEILL, PASHINSKI, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROSS, SANTONI, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SIPTROTH, STERN, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TRUE, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER, WATSON AND YUDICHAK, JULY 13, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JULY 13, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for exemption.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8902 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 8902. Exemption.
(a) General rule.--Any resident of this Commonwealth shall
be exempt from the payment of all real estate taxes levied upon
any building, including the land upon which it stands, occupied
by that person as a principal dwelling, if all of the following
requirements are met:
(1) That person has been honorably discharged or
released under honorable circumstances from the armed forces
of the United States for service in any war or armed conflict
in which this nation was engaged.
(2) As a result of such military service, that person is
blind or paraplegic or has sustained the loss of two or more
limbs, or has a service-connected disability declared by the
United States Veterans' Administration or its successors to
be a total or 100% permanent disability.
(3) The dwelling is owned by that person solely, with
his or her spouse or as an estate by the entireties.
(4) The need for the exemption from the payment of real
estate taxes has been determined by the State Veterans'
Commission in compliance with the requirements of this
chapter.
(b) Extension of exemption.--The exemption provided in
subsection (a) shall be extended to the unmarried surviving
spouse upon the death of the eligible veteran provided that the
State Veterans' Commission determines that such spouse is in
need of an exemption.
(c) Lump sum benefit payments.--Lump sum benefit payments
shall have no bearing on the question of need when determining
the applicant's economic status under subsection (a), provided
that the portion of the lump sum applicable to the current
application period, on a pro rata basis, does not exceed the
rebuttable presumption requirement under this chapter.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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