Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
6 instruments in District of Columbia. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsCreated a Purple Heart plate for a recipient or surviving spouse with a $10 application fee and no annual display fee.
Added D.C. Code 50-1501.02o for a Purple Heart recipient or an unremarried surviving spouse, with a one-time $10 application fee, no annual display fee, and proof by DD-214 or DD-215, WD-AGO 53-55, orders, a certificate from a service secretary or general or flag officer, or other documents the DMV accepts after consulting the Office of Veterans Affairs. Fees go to the Office of Veterans Affairs Fund. The act also repealed 50-1501.02a(b)(4), which had required the DMV to copy every veteran plate application to the Office. Effective May 21, 2026.
▲Expands benefitsWould turn the $445,000 deduction into a full exemption, drop the income limit, and add surviving spouses of veterans who died in the line of duty.
Not law. Introduced November 14, 2025, re-referred to the Committee of the Whole in March 2026 and heard on July 10, 2026, with no committee vote. It would exempt the whole assessed value of a qualifying veteran’s homestead, switch off the household income limit, and add surviving spouses of eligible disabled veterans and of veterans who died in the line of duty. The 100 percent permanent and total or unemployability test would stay. Council Period 26 ends on December 31, 2026, and a bill not enacted by then dies. Until then the $445,000 deduction and the income limit, $163,500 for tax year 2026, govern.
▲Expands benefitsExtends the disabled veterans homestead deduction to a surviving spouse or domestic partner.
Added D.C. Code 47-850(a-2)(4): an eligible spouse is the surviving spouse or domestic partner of a deceased veteran whose property was receiving the deduction at death or would have been eligible had the veteran applied, with the veteran’s disability tested at death and certified by the Office of Veterans Affairs. There is no remarriage condition. Applies as of October 1, 2025; effective February 3, 2026 after Congressional review. Flagged because the Office of Veterans Affairs deduction page and application, where the statute sends applications, still describe only a veteran applicant; the Office of Tax and Revenue’s page does mention the spouse deduction.
=No change to benefitsRenumbers the veterans deduction and corrects a misprinted word; no figure or gate changes.
An insurance act amended section 7072(b) of the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Support Act to move the veterans deduction from a second subsection (a-1) to (a-2), and to replace the enacted phrase "service-aggregated condition" with "service-aggravated condition". No figure or gate changed. The Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Support Act, D.C. Law 26-55, § 8008, later fixed the cross-reference in subsection (a) and redesignated the second subsection (f) as (h). A 2022 paper citing 47-850(a-1) refers to the provision now at (a-2).
Sponsor
Phil Mendelson, at the request of the MayorDemocratic, Council, Chairman, at-large
▲Expands benefitsCreated the $445,000 homestead deduction for a veteran rated totally and permanently disabled or paid at the 100 percent rate.
Subtitle VII-H, the Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption Amendment Act of 2022, added a deduction of $445,000 from the assessed value of a homestead owned by a veteran classified by VA as having a total and permanent service-connected disability or paid at the 100 percent rate for unemployability, whose household meets the income test for senior and disabled owner relief without its age and disability conditions. The property may not also receive the senior and disabled relief or the assessment cap credit, and applications go to the Office of Veterans Affairs for certification. The act applies as of October 1, 2022 and took effect on September 21, 2022 after Congressional review.
Sponsor
Phil Mendelson, at the request of the MayorDemocratic, Council, Chairman, at-large
▲Expands benefitsEnacted a $500,000 homestead deduction for a totally disabled veteran, though its funding condition was never met.
Added a first D.C. Code 47-850(a-1) deducting $500,000 of assessed value for a veteran rated permanent and total or paid at the 100 percent rate for unemployability. Section 3 made it apply as of October 1, 2019 or on inclusion of its fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan, whichever was later. It was never funded, and the Code’s editor’s note still says the amendment "has not been implemented". The deduction in force is the $445,000 version enacted by D.C. Law 24-167. Tracked because the bill summary on the Council’s record still describes $500,000.
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