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H3115 • 2025

An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans

An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans

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Sponsor
Kenneth I. Gordon
Last action
2025-11-03
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
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An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans

An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3115) of Kenneth I.
  • Gordon relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans.
  • Revenue.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-11-03 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-11-03 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-11-03 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-10-06 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-06-17 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-2

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Revenue

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans
By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3115) of Kenneth I. Gordon relative to tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans. Revenue.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.3115

SECTION 1.

Clause twenty-second of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the second paragraph and inserting in the place thereof the following paragraph:-

(a) Soldiers and sailors who, as a result of disabilities contracted while in the line of duty, have a disability rating of ten per cent or more as determined by the Veterans Administration or by any branch of the armed forces. After the assessors have allowed an exemption under this clause, veterans who according to the records of the Veterans Administration by reason of such service in the armed forces of the United States have suffered in the line of duty permanent disability will not be required in any subsequent year to reapply or present further evidence of the existence of the facts in the city or town in which the exemption has been allowed. Further evidence of the existence of the facts will be required in subsequent years for veterans whose disabilities the Veterans Administration has not deemed permanent; provided, however, that the assessors may refuse to allow an exemption in any subsequent year if they become aware that the soldier or sailor did not satisfy all of the requisites of this clause at the time the exemption was first granted.

SECTION 2.

Clause twenty-second E of Section 5 of said chapter 59, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the second paragraph and inserting in the place thereof the following paragraph:-

“After the assessors have allowed an exemption under this clause, veterans who according to the records of the Veterans Administration by reason of such service in the armed forces of the United States have suffered in the line of duty permanent disability will not be required in any subsequent year to reapply or present further evidence of the existence of the facts in the city or town in which the exemption has been allowed; provided, however, that the assessors may refuse to allow an exemption in any subsequent year if they become aware that the soldier or sailor did not satisfy all of the requisites of this clause at the time the exemption was first granted. Further evidence of the existence of the facts will be required in subsequent years for veterans whose disabilities the Veterans Administration has not deemed permanent.”

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