AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation. Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky increasing the homestead exemption from the current inflation-adjusted amount of $37,600 to the full assessed value of the property for owners with a permanent and total one hundred percent service-connected disability rating by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; make the exemption transferrable upon death to the surviving spouse; add the continued biennial inflation indexing of the homestead exemption amount; make various typographical changes of a nonsubstantive nature; state ballot question; submit to voters.
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Dec 2017
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Governor
Introduced Dec 8, 2017
Last action Jan 11, 2018
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Jan 11, 2018
House · Amendment offered
Reassigned to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
Jan 2, 2018
House · Referred to committee
To Education (H)
Jan 2, 2018
House · Introduced
Introduced in House
Dec 8, 2017
House · Introduced
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