New Hampshire / State / 2018 Regular Session
Laws of New Hampshire 2018, chapter 105 Made the VA disability certification conclusive against a town unless it produces contrary evidence
Rewrote RSA 72:35, III effective January 1, 2019. An applicant for the tax credit for service-connected total disability furnishes certification from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that they are rated totally and permanently disabled from service connection, and the selectmen or assessors "shall accept such certification as conclusive on the question of disability unless they have specific contrary evidence and the applicant, or the applicant’s representative, has had a reasonable opportunity to review and rebut that evidence", with a further right to submit additional evidence on the question of disability. Any decision to deny "shall identify the evidence upon which the decision relied and shall be made within the time period provided by law", and the credit must be divided evenly among the number of tax payments the municipality requires annually. Tracked because it is the strongest procedural protection in the New Hampshire file and almost no benefit summary mentions it: a veteran whose credit is refused on an assessor’s doubt about the rating, or refused without reasons, has a specific statutory answer and an appeal under RSA 72:34-a to the board of tax and land appeals or the superior court.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, Senate
- In committee Done, Senate Public and Municipal Affairs, then House Municipal and County Government
- Passed one chamber Done, Senate, voice vote, as amended
- Passed both chambers Done, House, voice vote
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- Gary Daniels
What it touches
- N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 72:35, III
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Official record
Read Laws of New Hampshire 2018, chapter 105 on the jurisdiction's own record