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Voter Guide: State amendment on veterans' survivors

Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) - 10/31/2014

Oct. 31--In addition to deciding races for Congress and various local offices, Virginia voters will be asked to weigh in on a proposed amendment to the state constitution in Tuesday's election.

The measure would authorize a real estate tax exemption for the homes of surviving spouses of military service members killed in action. The exemption would end if the spouse remarries.

As required by Virginia law, the proposed amendment has been approved by the General Assembly in two successive sessions. The votes were unanimous.

If approved by the voters, it will become part of the constitution.

The constitution already provides a tax exemption for the homes of military veterans with a 100 percent service-connected disability. The surviving spouse of such a veteran is entitled to claim the exemption as long as he or she occupies the home and does not remarry.

The full text of the proposed amendment appears below:

Shall Section 6-A of Article X (Taxation and Finance) of the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to exempt from taxation the real property of the surviving spouse of any member of the armed forces of the United States who was killed in action, where the surviving spouse occupies the real property as his or her principal place of residence and has not remarried?

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