Bill Text: PA SB765 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans' disability payments.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-11 - Referred to AGING AND YOUTH [SB765 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB765-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 829
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 765 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, COSTA, ORIE, FONTANA, KASUNIC, TARTAGLIONE, WAUGH, BROWNE, YUDICHAK, KITCHEN, FERLO, WOZNIAK, LEACH, SOLOBAY, BREWSTER, EARLL, RAFFERTY, ERICKSON, TOMLINSON, GREENLEAF AND MENSCH, MARCH 11, 2011
REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, MARCH 11, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of August 26, 1971 (P.L.351, No.91), entitled
"An act providing for a State Lottery and administration
thereof; authorizing the creation of a State Lottery
Commission; prescribing its powers and duties; disposition of
funds; violations and penalties therefor; exemption of prizes
from State and local taxation and making an appropriation,"
further defining "income" to exclude certain veterans'
disability payments.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "income" in section 502 of the
act of August 26, 1971 (P.L.351, No.91), known as the State
Lottery Law, amended November 26, 2003 (P.L.212, No.37), is
amended to read:
Section 502. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
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"Income." All income from whatever source derived,
including, but not limited to, salaries, wages, bonuses,
commissions, income from self-employment, alimony, support
money, cash public assistance and relief, the gross amount of
any pensions or annuities, including railroad retirement
benefits, all benefits received under the Social Security Act
(49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et. seq.) (except Medicare
benefits), all benefits received under State unemployment
insurance laws and veterans' disability payments which are not
related to a service-incurred injury, all interest received from
the Federal Government or any state government or any
instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, realized
capital gains, rentals, workmen's compensation and the gross
amount of loss of time insurance benefits, life insurance
benefits and proceeds, except the first $10,000 of the total of
death benefits payments, and gifts of cash or property, other
than transfers by gift between members of a household, in excess
of a total value of $300, but shall not include surplus food or
other relief in kind supplied by a government agency [or],
property tax rebate or any veterans' disability payments which
are related to a service-incurred injury.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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