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Committee waives permitting fees for certified disabled veterans' home improvements (HB1087)
Summary
House bill HB1087 would exempt disabled veterans, certified by the Department of Veterans Services, from paying permitting fees for home modifications made to accommodate a disability; the committee passed the bill after brief discussion.
The House veterans committee approved HB1087, a bill that would exempt certain certified disabled veterans from paying local permitting fees for home modifications made to accommodate disabilities.
The sponsor said the bill applies when a veteran is a disabled veteran as defined in state code and is certified by the Department of Veterans Services: “if you are a disabled veteran ... and you made any improvements to your home to accommodate that disability, you would not pay the permitting fees for that construction.”
Committee members asked clarifying questions; no objections were raised in the transcript. A member moved the bill, a second was recorded, and the committee voted to pass HB1087. The transcript records the bill passed but does not include a roll‑call tally.
The bill does not specify a funding source to offset local fee revenue in the committee discussion recorded in the transcript. The Department of Veterans Services certification process was mentioned as the eligibility verification mechanism.
