H0363B1032A00352 MAB:EJH 04/26/23 #90 A00352
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 363
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE LAWRENCE
Printer's No. 1032
Amend Bill, page 1, line 4, by inserting after "STATUTES,"
in disabled veterans' real estate tax exemption, further
providing for duty of commission by removing a rebuttable
presumption; and
Amend Bill, page 2, lines 12 and 13, by striking out all of
said lines and inserting
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
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.]
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Section 2. Title 51 is amended by adding a chapter to read:
Amend Bill, page 3, line 14, by striking out "2" and
inserting
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