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Senate passes change expanding property-tax exemption to veterans who died by suicide; earlier proposal for broader local option set aside
Summary
After repeated reconsiderations and floor substitutes, the Senate passed House Bill 18 68 to expand an existing real-property tax exemption to veterans who died in the line of duty by suicide and removed an earlier unrelated local-option provision.
The Senate on Thursday passed House Bill 18 68, a measure that, as adopted by the Senate, adds veterans who died in the line of duty by suicide to a property tax exemption for surviving owners.
Senator Sarravel, the senator from Eastern Fairfax, explained the floor substitute process that began earlier in the week and how a proposed addition — Senate Bill 8 95 — was added and later removed. He told colleagues the floor substitute “basically adds, his senate…
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