Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB303 Introduced / Bill

Filed 12/30/2024

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 303 	By: Stanley 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to ad valorem tax; amending 68 O.S. 
2021, Sections 2905, 2906, and 2907, which relate to 
claims for property tax relief; modifying certain 
income limitation; authorizing claim for certain 
disabled service members and first responders; 
requiring the Oklahoma Tax Commission to submit 
certain information; modifying claim limit; updating 
statutory language; updating statutory r eferences; 
making language gender neutral; and providing an 
effective date. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     68 O.S. 2021, Section 2905, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 2905.  The provisions of Sections 2904 through 2911 of 
this title shall apply only to persons sixty -five (65) years of age 
or older; or to any totally disabled person, who is head of a 
household, was a resident of and domiciled in this state during the 
entire preceding calendar year, and whose gross household income 
does not exceed the amount of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) 
determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to be seventy -five percent (75%) of the estimated median   
 
 
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income for the preceding year for the county or metropolitan 
statistical area which includes the county for any calendar year ; 
and any person who has been honorably discharged from active service 
in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United State s or Oklahoma 
National Guard and who has been certified by the United States 
Department of Veterans Affairs to have a seventy -five percent (75%) 
disability sustained through military action or accident, or 
resulting from disease contracted while in the act ive service; any 
person granted a disability retirement benefit by the Oklahoma 
Police Pension and Retirement System, Oklahoma Firefighters Pension 
and Retirement System, Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System, 
or the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Dep artment Retirement Fund for 
a disability incurred in the line of duty; and a s urviving spouse of 
such person, who is the head of a household and a resident of and 
domiciled in this state during the entire preceding calendar year .  
The provisions of these s ections shall be administered by the 
Oklahoma Tax Commission, which shall devise and furnish appropriate 
forms for claims, reports of household income, proof of property 
taxes paid, and such other forms as may be deemed necessary to 
support claims made pur suant to said sections. 
SECTION 2.     AMENDATORY     68 O.S . 2021, Section 2906, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 2906.  A. Any person sixty-five (65) years of age or 
older or any totally disabled person, who is the head of a   
 
 
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household, a resident of and domiciled in this state during the 
entire preceding calendar year, and whose gross household income for 
such year does not exceed Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) the 
amount determined by the United States Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to be seventy -five percent (75%) of the estimated 
median income for the preceding year for the county or metropolitan 
statistical area which includes the county may file a claim for 
property tax relief on the amount of property taxes paid on the 
household occupied by such person during the preceding calendar 
year. 
B.  Any person who has been honorably discharged from active 
service in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States or 
Oklahoma National Guard and who has been certi fied by the United 
States Department of Veterans Affairs to have a seventy -five percent 
(75%) disability sustained through military action or accident, or 
resulting from disease contracted while in the active service ; any 
person granted a disability retire ment benefit by the Oklahoma 
Police Pension and Retirement System, Oklahoma Firefighters Pension 
and Retirement System, Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System, 
or the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Department Retirement Fund for 
a disability incurred i n the line of duty; and a surviving spouse of 
such person, who is the head of a household and a resident of and 
domiciled in this state during the entire preceding calendar year 
may file a claim for property tax relief on the amount of property   
 
 
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taxes paid on the household occupied by the person during the 
preceding calendar year. 
C. Each head of household shall be allowed to file only one 
claim per year. 
D.  The Oklahoma Tax Commission shall provide information on the 
income limitation provided in subsecti on A of this section to each 
county assessor each year as soon as the informat ion becomes 
available. 
SECTION 3.     AMENDATORY     68 O.S. 2021, Section 2907, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 2907.  A.  The amount of any claim filed pursuant to 
Section 108 of this act 2908 of this title shall be for the amount 
of the property taxes paid by the claimant for the preceding 
calendar year which exceeds one percent (1%) of the household 
income, but no claim for property tax relief shall ex ceed Two 
Hundred Dollars ($200.00) One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) . 
B.  The right to file a claim and to receive property tax relief 
under the provisions of this act Sections 2904 through 2911 of this 
title shall be personal to the claimant and shall not survive his or 
her death, except that a surviving spouse of the claimant may 
receive benefits hereunder upon the timely filing of a claim. 
SECTION 4.  This act shall become effective January 1, 2026. 
 
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