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Committee hears HJR 6 to extend homestead and personal-property tax exemptions to 100% disabled veterans
Summary
Rep. Dave Griffith urged a Missouri House special committee to place House Joint Resolution 6 (HJR 6) on the ballot so voters can extend homestead and personal‑property tax exemptions to service members who are 100% permanently disabled, including surviving spouses who continue to live in the homestead.
Rep. Dave Griffith urged a Missouri House special committee to place House Joint Resolution 6 (HJR 6) on the ballot so voters can extend homestead and personal‑property tax exemptions to service members who are 100% permanently disabled, including surviving spouses who continue to live in the homestead, Griffith said during a committee hearing.
Griffith framed the measure as a technical but consequential change to existing language that would broaden eligibility. "I wanted to fix one word — changing it from an 'and' to an 'or,'" Representative Dave Griffith said, describing earlier legislation and his multi‑year effort to expand exemptions beyond a small group affected by a 2012 measure. He said earlier versions of…
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