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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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.
1 instrument 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 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.
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