THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY QUINN, REICHLEY, MURT, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BAKER, BARBIN, BENNINGHOFF, BOBACK, BOYD, V. BROWN, CUTLER, DAVIDSON, DAVIS, ELLIS, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, GABLER, GEORGE, GOODMAN, HAHN, HARHAI, HARHART, HELM, HENNESSEY, HORNAMAN, M. K. KELLER, KILLION, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, MIRABITO, MURPHY, MUSTIO, NEUMAN, PICKETT, SAINATO, SANTARSIERO, K. SMITH, STABACK, STEPHENS, STEVENSON, SWANGER, VEREB, VULAKOVICH AND WAGNER, APRIL 25, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, APRIL 25, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing real estate tax

exemptions for disabled veterans. 

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 by adding a subsection to read:

§ 8902.  Exemption.

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(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), as long as

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.