PRINTER'S NO. 2704
No. 2002 Session of 1984
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, KASUNIC, HERSHEY, BELOFF, GRIECO,
BELFANTI, HALUSKA, MILLER, PETRONE, COHEN, MARKOSEK,
KOSINSKI, D. R. WRIGHT, ARTY, PISTELLA, LAUGHLIN, HERMAN,
PRATT, MRKONIC, PETRARCA, HARPER, LUCYK, OLASZ, COLAFELLA,
MICHLOVIC, TRELLO, FLICK, FATTAH, VAN HORNE, BOOK, POTT,
BURD, COWELL, DALEY, BATTISTO, DUFFY, GAMBLE, McMONAGLE,
PETRARCA, LIVENGOOD, SALOOM AND MISCEVICH, MARCH 21, 1984
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 21, 1984
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 further defining the term "claimant."
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Section 3(7) of the act of March 11, 1971
14 (P.L.104, No.3), known as the Senior Citizens Rebate and
15 Assistance Act, reenacted and amended June 16, 1975 (P.L.7,
16 No.4) and amended March 10, 1982 (P.L.177, No.56), is amended to
17 read:
18 Section 3. Definitions.--As used in this act:
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1 (7) "Claimant" means a person who files a claim for property
2 tax rebate or rent rebate in lieu of property taxes and
3 inflation dividend and was sixty-five years of age or over, or
4 whose spouse (if a member of the household) was sixty-five years
5 of age or over, during a calendar year in which real property
6 taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and payable or was a
7 single person sixty-two years of age or older during a calendar
8 year in which real property taxes, rent and inflation costs were
9 due and payable, or was a widow or widower and was fifty years
10 of age or over during a calendar year or part thereof in which
11 real property taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and
12 payable, or was a permanently disabled person eighteen years of
13 age or over during a calendar year or part thereof in which real
14 property taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and payable.
15 For the purposes of this act the term "widow" or "widower" shall
16 mean the surviving wife or the surviving husband, as the case
17 may be, of a deceased individual and who has not remarried
18 except as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 4 of
19 this act. For the purposes of this act the term "permanently
20 disabled person" shall mean a person who is unable to engage in
21 any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically
22 determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected
23 to continue indefinitely, except as provided in subsection (c)
24 and (d) of section 4 of this act.
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26 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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