A00235
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
363
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, HOHENSTEIN, CERRATO, SANCHEZ, KAZEEM,
MADDEN, KINSEY, CIRESI, HILL-EVANS, SCHLOSSBERG, DELLOSO,
JAMES, HARKINS, McNEILL, DEASY, FREEMAN AND INNAMORATO,
MARCH 14, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 14, 2023
AN ACT
Providing for the exclusion of veterans' disability benefits as
eligible income.
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for the exclusion of
veterans' benefit payments from income for Commonwealth
programs.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Exclusion of
Veterans' Disability Benefits as Income Act.
Section 2. Eligibility income.
Veterans' disability benefits shall not be deemed income for
purposes of eligibility under any of the following:
(1) The definition of "income" in section 502 of the act
of August 26, 1971 (P.L.351, No.91), known as the State
Lottery Law.
(2) Chapter 13 of the act of June 27, 2006 (1st
Sp.Sess., P.L.1873, No.1), known as the Taxpayer Relief Act.
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