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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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.
3 instruments in Minnesota. 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 benefitsRemoved the 2011 death-date cutoff and the deadline on the surviving spouse market value exclusion.
Amended Minn. Stat. 273.13, subd. 34(k), effective beginning with assessment year 2023. Struck the words “dying after December 31, 2011”, so there is no longer any cutoff on when the veteran died; added “or the exclusion under paragraph (b), clause (2), did not exist at the time of the veteran’s death”; and struck the requirement that the spouse file a first-time application within two years of the death or by June 1, 2019, whichever was later, leaving that route with no deadline at all. Added paragraph (o), letting a spouse whose exclusion had expired before taxes payable in 2020 reapply. Tracked because the Department of Defense benefits library still lists “Veteran died after December 31, 2011” as a condition of a Minnesota surviving spouse’s eligibility, which would turn away exactly the spouses paragraph (k) was widened to reach.
▲Expands benefitsCreated vehicle registration, title, sales tax and license fee exemptions for a totally disabled veteran.
Added Minn. Stat. 171.01, subd. 51, defining a veteran with a total service-connected disability as a veteran under 197.447 with satisfactory evidence of a 100 percent total and permanent service-connected rating, and built four exemptions on it: 168.012, subd. 13 (registration tax, administrative fees, filing fees and surcharges, plate and validation sticker fees, on up to two vehicles at a time, jointly registrable with a spouse or domestic partner, excluding personalised plate fees and special plate contributions); 168A.29, subd. 4 (certificate of title fee); 171.06, subd. 2c (all driver’s licence, endorsement, filing and identification card fees); and 297B.03, clause (16) (motor vehicle sales tax), the last effective for sales and purchases made after June 30, 2024. Tracked for two reasons. The definition names only a 100 percent total and permanent rating and does not mention individual unemployability, while published guidance treats a TDIU award letter as acceptable evidence. And clause (16) contains no vehicle count and no lifetime cap, although secondary descriptions of the exemption commonly state a one-vehicle limit.
▲Expands benefitsRemoved the eight-year limit on the surviving spouse market value exclusion and made it portable.
Amended Minn. Stat. 273.13, subd. 34(c), effective beginning with assessments in 2021. The carryover of the $300,000 exclusion to the spouse of a veteran who held the total and permanent tier had run for the current taxes payable year plus eight additional taxes payable years. The eight-year cap was struck, so the exclusion now runs until the spouse remarries or disposes of the property. The same section added paragraph (n), allowing a spouse who no longer holds title to move the exclusion once to another property of equal or lower estimated market value measured on the date of the sale. Tracked because sources describing a five-year or eight-year run for a Minnesota surviving spouse, including fact sheets still served by the Department of Revenue from earlier years, would tell a spouse their benefit had ended when it had not.
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