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History
- Amended on third reading 6454a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.248
- Referred to local government
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Title of bill
An act authorizing reimbursement for certain tax penalties
Purpose or general idea of the bill
To allow individuals whose pension checks were lost in the mail on or around December 30, 2009 to receive reimbursement for any penalty they were assessed for failure to pay their school or property taxes on time if such taxes were due between December 30, 2009 and February 1, 2010.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 states that any member of the State and Local Retirement System, or Police and Fire Retirement System who were eligible to receive a pension check on December 30, 2009 but did not receive such a check in a timely fashion who signs a verified statement, shall be reimbursed by any municipality from which they were charged a late fee for failure to pay property or school taxes if they were due between December 30, 2009 and February 1, 2010. The individuals who are receiving reimbursement are only eligible if they are up to date on their taxes for which they are seeking reimbursement. Section 2 is the effective date.
Justification
As a result of an error by the postal office many of the 60,000 pension checks were temporarily lost and inadvertently mailed out of state. Numerous pensioners count on these checks to cover their daily and monthly costs, any delay in receiving these checks causes havoc on their finances. One such area that is greatly affected is that of property and school taxes, pensioners on fixed incomes often struggle to meet deadlines for payment and as a result of a failure to receive their checks in a timely fashion it is possible that they failed to meet these deadlines and were assessed a penalty. This legislation seeks to hold these pensioners harmless by waiving any penalty that was assessed for this one time extenuating circumstance.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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