Bill Text - HB130 (2020)

Relative to property tax relief for totally and permanently disabled veterans.


Revision: Jan. 8, 2020, 1:52 p.m.

HB 130-LOCAL - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

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2019 SESSION

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05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 130-LOCAL

 

AN ACT relative to property tax relief for totally and permanently disabled veterans.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Panasiti, Hills. 22; Rep. Gunski, Hills. 6; Rep. Janigian, Rock. 8; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock. 5; Rep. Desilets, Rock. 7; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that a person who is 100 percent permanently and totally disabled pursuant to federal regulations governing total and permanent disability ratings and unemployability shall be eligible for the property tax exemption under RSA 72:36-a.  The bill also reorders existing eligibility criteria for the exemption.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to property tax relief for totally and permanently disabled veterans.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Veterans' Property Tax Exemption; Permanent and Total Disability.  Amend RSA 72:36-a to read as follows:

72:36-a  Certain Disabled Veterans.  Any person, who is discharged from military service of the United States under conditions other than dishonorable, or an officer who is honorably separated from military service, [who is totally and permanently disabled from service connection and satisfactory proof of such service connection is furnished to the assessors and who is a double amputee of the upper or lower extremities or any combination thereof, paraplegic, or has blindness of both eyes with visual acuity of 5/200 or less as the result of service connection and] who owns a specially adapted homestead which has been acquired with the assistance of the Veterans Administration or which has been acquired using proceeds from the sale of any previous homestead which was acquired with the assistance of the Veterans Administration, the person or person's surviving spouse, shall be exempt from all taxation on said homestead, provided that:

I.  The person or officer:

(a)  Is 100 percent permanently and totally disabled as prescribed in 38 C.F.R. 3.340, total and permanent total ratings and unemployability; or

(b)  Is a double amputee of the upper or lower extremities or any combination thereof, or paraplegic, as the result of service connection; or

(c)  Has blindness of both eyes with visual acuity of 5/200 or less, as the result of service connection.

II.  Satisfactory proof of such service connection disability is furnished to the assessors.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.