PRINTER'S NO. 3454
No. 2556 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY DeMEDIO, F. E. TAYLOR, FRYER, MRKONIC, GRABOWSKI
AND MISCEVICH, JUNE 8, 1982
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, JUNE 8, 1982
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 11, 1971 (P.L.104, No.3), entitled, as
2 reenacted and amended, "An act providing property tax or rent
3 rebate and inflation dividends to certain senior citizens,
4 widows, widowers and permanently disabled persons with
5 limited incomes; establishing uniform standards and
6 qualifications for eligibility to receive rebates and
7 dividends; providing for transportation assistance grants and
8 grants to area agencies on aging for services to older
9 persons; and imposing duties upon the Department of Revenue,"
10 extending provisions of the act to single persons who are
11 fifty years of age or older.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. The title and clause (7) of section 3, act of
15 March 11, 1971 (P.L.104, No.3), known as the "Senior Citizens
16 Rebate and Assistance Act," reenacted and amended June 16, 1975
17 (P.L.7, No.4), and amended March 10, 1982 (P.L.177, No.56), are
18 amended to read:
19 AN ACT
20 Providing property tax or rent rebate and inflation dividends to
21 certain senior citizens, widows, widowers, single persons and
22 permanently disabled persons with limited incomes;
1 establishing uniform standards and qualifications for
2 eligibility to receive rebates and dividends; providing for
3 transportation assistance grants and grants to area agencies
4 on aging for services to older persons; and imposing duties
5 upon the Department of Revenue.
6 Section 3. Definitions.--As used in this act:
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8 (7) "Claimant" means a person who files a claim for property
9 tax rebate or rent rebate in lieu of property taxes and
10 inflation dividend and was sixty-five years of age or over, or
11 whose spouse (if a member of the household) was sixty-five years
12 of age or over, during a calendar year in which real property
13 taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and payable or was a
14 widow or widower and was fifty years of age or over during a
15 calendar year or part thereof in which real property taxes, rent
16 and inflation costs were due and payable, or was a permanently
17 disabled person eighteen years of age or over or a single person
18 and fifty years of age or older during a calendar year or part
19 thereof in which real property taxes, rent and inflation costs
20 were due and payable. For the purposes of this act the term
21 "widow" or "widower" shall mean the surviving wife or the
22 surviving husband, as the case may be, of a deceased individual
23 and who has not remarried except as provided in subsection (c)
24 and (d) of section 4 of this act. For the purposes of this act
25 the term "permanently disabled person" shall mean a person who
26 is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by
27 reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
28 impairment which can be expected to continue indefinitely,
29 except as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 4 of
30 this act.
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2 Section 2. This amendatory act shall apply to the tax year
3 beginning on and after January 1, 1982.
4 Section 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 1983.
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