PRINTER'S NO. 212
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
244
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY PITTMAN, FONTANA, BARTOLOTTA, STEFANO, J. WARD,
AUMENT, TARTAGLIONE, MENSCH, SCHWANK, MASTRIANO, REGAN,
COSTA, K. WARD, CAPPELLETTI AND BOSCOLA, FEBRUARY 18, 2021
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in disabled veterans' real estate tax
exemption, further providing for duty of commission.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8904(1) of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 8904. Duty of commission.
The commission shall:
(1) Fix uniform and equitable standards for determining
the need for exemption from the payment of real estate taxes
granted by this act. In fixing such uniform and equitable
standards, the commission shall apply a rebuttable
presumption that an applicant with annual income of $75,000
or less has a need for the exemption. Beginning on January 1,
2009, and every two years thereafter, the commission shall
adjust the annual income level qualifying for the rebuttable
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presumption of need by an amount equal to the change in the
Consumer Price Index in the preceding two years. The
commission shall publish the adjusted annual income level
qualifying for the rebuttable presumption of need as a notice
in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Compensation received by an
individual for an injury due to service as indicated under
section 2(c) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania may not be considered by the commission.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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