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Defense & Veterans Introduced Kentucky · 2025RS
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HB 639

AN ACT relating to a property tax homestead exemption for disabled veterans.

In Plain Language

This bill creates a property tax exemption for veterans with service-connected disabilities on their primary home, reducing the taxes they owe on state, county, city, and special district property taxes. The exemption can apply to traditional homes, mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes, and a surviving spouse can keep the exemption after the veteran passes away. The exemption takes effect for properties assessed starting January 1, 2026, and people who overpay taxes while the exemption is being applied can get refunds.

Official summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132, relating to state and local property taxes, to establish a new homestead exemption for veterans with a service-connected disability; establish requirements for the exemption; allow the permanent residence of a veteran's surviving spouse to continue to receive the exemption; require the Department of Revenue to prescribe forms and an application process for the exemption; apply the exemption to state, county, city, and special district taxes; allow mobile homes, manufactured houses, recreational homes, and modular homes to qualify for the exemption; require title transfers on property receiving the exemption to be reported to the property valuation administrator; allow the exemption to apply to the value of the property that is assessable to the owner or proportioned to his or her interest when the property is jointly owned or owned through a stock or membership corporation; allow partial or full refunds if an overpayment occurs upon application of the exemption; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2026.

Sponsor

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Cosponsors

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Latest action

to Appropriations & Revenue (H)

Feb 21, 2025

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Action history

Feb 21, 2025 to Appropriations & Revenue (H)

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