Senate Bill No. 445
(By Senators Schoonover, Prezioso, Buckalew,
Dittmar, Helmick, Hunter, Wooton, White, Minear, Deem, Ross,
Sharpe and Dugan)
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[Introduced March 24, 1997; referred to the Committee
on Military; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article one-f, chapter fifteen of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
ten, relating to exempting from state income taxation the
military pensions of hazardous military duty classified
retired veterans.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one-f, chapter fifteen of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section ten,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1F. PRIVILEGES AND PROHIBITIONS.
§15-1F-10. Exemption from state income taxation.
Any military pension of an honorably discharged retired state resident veteran who has served not less than nineteen
years, six months, one day in any branch of the armed services of
the United States, any part of which was classified as hazardous
military duty, is exempt from state income taxation.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to exempt from state
income taxation the military pensions of hazardous military duty
classified retired veterans.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.