First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 
 LLS NO. R13-0417.01 Jason Gelender x4330         SCR13-001
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Crowder, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None), 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 13-001 
       Submitting to the registered electors of the state of
            Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution
            concerning the extension of the property tax
            exemption granted to a qualifying disabled veteran to
            a surviving spouse of such a veteran who has limited
            financial means for up to three years following the
            death of the veteran.
       
       
                        Resolution Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and
       does not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this
       resolution passes third reading in the house of introduction, a resolution
       summary that applies to the reengrossed version of this resolution will be
       available at http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            If approved by the voters of the state at the 2014 general election,
       the concurrent resolution will extend the property tax exemption granted
       to a qualifying disabled veteran to a surviving spouse of such a veteran
       who has limited financial means for the 3 years following the death of the
       veteran or until the surviving spouse remarries, whichever comes first.
       For purposes of the concurrent resolution, a surviving spouse has limited
       financial means if his or her total countable income is less than or equal
       to the total countable income cap used by the United States department
       of veterans affairs, or any successor agency, in determining eligibility for
       a veterans affairs survivors pension.
       
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
            SECTION 1.  At the next election at which such question may be
       submitted, there shall be submitted to the registered electors of the state
       of Colorado, for their approval or rejection, the following amendment to
       the constitution of the state of Colorado, to wit:
            In the constitution of the state of Colorado, section 3.5 of article
       X, add (1) (d) as follows:
            Section 3.5.  Homestead exemption for qualifying senior
       citizens and disabled veterans. (1)  For property tax years commencing
       on or after January 1, 2002, fifty percent of the first two hundred
       thousand dollars of actual value of residential real property, as defined by
       law, that, as of the assessment date, is owner-occupied and is used as the
       primary residence of the owner-occupier shall be exempt from property
       taxation if:
            (d)  For property tax years commencing on or after
       January 1, 2015, only, the owner-occupier, as of the assessment
       date:
            (I)  Is the surviving spouse of a disabled veteran who
       previously qualified for a property tax exemption under
       paragraph (c) of this subsection (1) and who died during one of
       the three property tax years preceding the property tax year
       for which the surviving spouse claims an exemption;
            (II)  Has not remarried; and
            (III)  Has limited financial means. A surviving spouse of a
       disabled veteran has limited financial means if his or her total
       countable income is less than or equal to the total countable
       income cap used by the United States department of veterans
       affairs, or any successor agency, in determining eligibility for
       a veterans affairs survivors pension.
            SECTION 2.  Each elector voting at said election and desirous of
       voting for or against said amendment shall cast a vote as provided by law
       either "Yes/For" or "No/Against" on the proposition:  "Shall there be an
       amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the extension of the
       property tax exemption granted to a qualifying disabled veteran to a
       surviving spouse of such a veteran who has limited financial means for
       up to three years following the death of the veteran?"
            SECTION 3.  The votes cast for the adoption or rejection of said
       amendment shall be canvassed and the result determined in the manner
       provided by law for the canvassing of votes for representatives in
       Congress, and if a majority of the electors voting on the question shall
       have voted "Yes/For", the said amendment shall become a part of the
       state constitution.