HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 918        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2730

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to Veterans Benefits..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 5 of Chapter 59 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 767 to 770, inclusive, the words “to the amount of six thousand dollars of the taxable valuation of real property or the sum of $600, whichever would result in an abatement of the greater amount of taxes due,” and inserting in place thereof the following words: — to the full amount of the taxable valuation of real property.

SECTION 2.  Said Section 5 of said Chapter 59 is further amended by striking out, in lines 788 and 789, the words “up to four thousand dollars of exemption or up to the sum of $425, whichever basis is applicable,”