PRINTER'S NO. 587
No. 525 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, KOSINSKI, MARKOSEK, NAHILL, COY, MILLER,
CARLSON, BUNT, McNALLY, DISTLER, SERAFINI, MICOZZIE, McVERRY,
HALUSKA, HASAY, CIVERA, OLASZ, LEVDANSKY, HERMAN, BELFANTI,
WOGAN, TIGUE, PISTELLA, CAWLEY, PETRARCA, CORRIGAN, BELARDI,
GANNON, VEON, MELIO, RITTER, REBER, JOHNSON, MAINE,
GIGLIOTTI, VAN HORNE, TRICH, DALEY AND COLAFELLA,
FEBRUARY 15, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON YOUTH AND AGING, FEBRUARY 15, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 11, 1971 (P.L.104, No.3), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act providing property tax or rent rebate and
3 inflation dividends to certain senior citizens, widows,
4 widowers and permanently disabled persons with limited
5 incomes; establishing uniform standards and qualifications
6 for eligibility to receive rebates and dividends; providing
7 for transportation assistance grants and grants to area
8 agencies on aging for services to older persons; and imposing
9 duties upon the Department of Revenue," reducing the age
10 requirement for claimants.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Section 3(7) of the act of March 11, 1971
14 (P.L.104, No.3), known as the Senior Citizens Rebate and
15 Assistance Act, reenacted and amended December 21, 1979
16 (P.L.570, No.131) and amended March 10, 1982 (P.L.177, No.56),
17 is amended to read:
18 Section 3. Definitions.--As used in this act:
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1 (7) "Claimant" means a person who files a claim for property
2 tax rebate or rent rebate in lieu of property taxes and
3 inflation dividend and was [sixty-five] sixty-two years of age
4 or over, or whose spouse (if a member of the household) was
5 [sixty-five] sixty-two years of age or over, during a calendar
6 year in which real property taxes, rent and inflation costs were
7 due and payable or was a widow or widower and was fifty years of
8 age or over during a calendar year or part thereof in which real
9 property taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and payable,
10 or was a permanently disabled person eighteen years of age or
11 over during a calendar year or part thereof in which real
12 property taxes, rent and inflation costs were due and payable.
13 For the purposes of this act the term "widow" or "widower" shall
14 mean the surviving wife or the surviving husband, as the case
15 may be, of a deceased individual and who has not remarried
16 except as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 4 of
17 this act. For the purposes of this act the term "permanently
18 disabled person" shall mean a person who is unable to engage in
19 any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically
20 determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected
21 to continue indefinitely, except as provided in subsection (c)
22 and (d) of section 4 of this act.
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24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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