The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Heyward Jeffers.
DIGEST
Adley (SB 96)
Present constitution provides an additional seven thousand five hundred dollars in homestead
exemption to veterans with a service-connected disability rating of one hundred percent by the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Present constitution provides the same exemption to surviving spouses of deceased veterans with
a rating of one hundred percent disability.
Proposed constitutional amendment, to become effective January 1, 2015, maintains current
constitutional amendment of service-connected disability rating by the United States Department
of Veterans Affairs of "one hundred percent" and adds the rating of "totally disabled or
unemployable" to the ratings to be eligible for the exemption.
Specifies submission of the amendment to the voters at the statewide election to be held on
November 4, 2014.
(Amends Const. Art. VII, Sec. 21(K)(1))