Senate Amendment 3019


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     1  1    Amend Senate File 202 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 3, by inserting after line 8 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  Section 426A.11, Code 2003, is amended
     1  5 by adding the following new subsection:
     1  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  The property, not to exceed
     1  7 one thousand eight hundred fifty=two dollars in
     1  8 taxable value of a resident currently serving in the
     1  9 national guard or armed forces reserve or currently on
     1 10 active duty status in the armed forces.
     1 11    Sec.    .  Section 426A.13, unnumbered paragraphs 1
     1 12 through 3, Code 2003, are amended to read as follows:
     1 13    A person named in section 426A.11, who is a
     1 14 resident of and domiciled in the state of Iowa, shall
     1 15 receive a reduction equal to the exemption, to be made
     1 16 from any property owned by the person or owned by a
     1 17 family farm corporation of which the person is a
     1 18 shareholder and who occupies the property and so
     1 19 designated by proceeding as provided in the section.
     1 20 To be eligible to receive the exemption the person
     1 21 claiming it shall have recorded in the office of the
     1 22 county recorder of the county in which is located the
     1 23 property designated for the exemption, evidence of
     1 24 property ownership by that person or the family farm
     1 25 corporation of which the person is a shareholder and
     1 26 the military certificate of satisfactory service,
     1 27 order transferring to inactive status, reserve,
     1 28 retirement, order of separation from service,
     1 29 honorable discharge or a copy of any of these
     1 30 documents of the person claiming or through whom is
     1 31 claimed the exemption.  In the case of a person
     1 32 claiming the exemption for currently serving in the
     1 33 national guard or armed services reserve or currently
     1 34 on active duty status in the armed forces, the person
     1 35 shall file a statement signed by the person's
     1 36 immediate commanding officer.
     1 37    The person shall file with the appropriate assessor
     1 38 on forms obtained from the assessor the claim for
     1 39 exemption for the year for which the person is first
     1 40 claiming the exemption.  The claim shall be filed not
     1 41 later than July 1 of the year for which the person is
     1 42 claiming the exemption.  The claim shall set out the
     1 43 fact that the person is a resident of and domiciled in
     1 44 the state of Iowa, and a person within the terms of
     1 45 section 426A.11, and shall give the volume and page on
     1 46 which the certificate of satisfactory service, order
     1 47 of separation, retirement, furlough to reserve,
     1 48 inactive status, or honorable discharge or certified
     1 49 copy thereof is recorded in the office of the county
     1 50 recorder, and may include the designation of the
     2  1 property from which the exemption is to be made, and
     2  2 shall further state that the claimant is the equitable
     2  3 or legal owner of the property designated or if the
     2  4 property is owned by a family farm corporation, that
     2  5 the person is a shareholder of that corporation and
     2  6 that the person occupies the property.  In the case of
     2  7 a person claiming the exemption for currently serving
     2  8 in the national guard or armed services reserve or
     2  9 currently on active duty status in the armed forces,
     2 10 the person shall file a statement signed by the
     2 11 person's immediate commanding officer.
     2 12    Upon the filing and allowance of the claim, the
     2 13 claim shall be allowed to that person for successive
     2 14 years without further filing.  However, in the case of
     2 15 a person currently serving in the national guard or
     2 16 armed services reserve or currently on active duty
     2 17 status in the armed forces, such person shall file
     2 18 each year to be eligible to obtain the exemption.
     2 19 Provided, that notwithstanding the filing or having on
     2 20 file a claim for exemption, the person or person's
     2 21 spouse is the legal or equitable owner of the property
     2 22 on July 1 of the year for which the claim is allowed.
     2 23 When the property is sold or transferred or the person
     2 24 wishes to designate different property for the
     2 25 exemption, a person who wishes to receive the
     2 26 exemption shall refile for the exemption.  A person
     2 27 who sells or transfers property which is designated
     2 28 for the exemption or the personal representative of a
     2 29 deceased person who owned such property shall provide
     2 30 written notice to the assessor that the property is no
     2 31 longer legally or equitably owned by the former
     2 32 claimant.>
     2 33 #2.  Title page, line 3, by inserting after the
     2 34 word <reimbursement,> the following:  <expanding the
     2 35 military service tax credit to include those currently
     2 36 serving in the national guard or armed forces reserve
     2 37 or currently on active duty status in the armed
     2 38 forces,>.
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     2 41                               
     2 42 DENNIS H. BLACK
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     2 46 DARYL BEALL
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     2 50 JOE BOLKCOM
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     3  4 MIKE CONNOLLY
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     3  8 THOMAS G. COURTNEY
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     3 12 DICK L. DEARDEN
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     3 16 WILLIAM A. DOTZLER
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     3 20 ROBERT E. DVORSKY
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     3 24 GENE FRAISE
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     3 28 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL
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     3 32 JACK HATCH
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     3 36 JACK HOLVECK
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     3 40 WALLY E. HORN
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     3 43                               
     3 44 JOHN P. KIBBIE
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     3 47                               
     3 48 KEITH KREIMAN
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     4  2 MATT McCOY
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     4  5                               
     4  6 HERMAN QUIRMBACH
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     4  9                               
     4 10 AMANDA RAGAN
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     4 14 DR. JOE M. SENG
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     4 18 ROGER STEWART
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     4 21                               
     4 22 STEVE H. WARNSTADT
     4 23 SF 202.303 80
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