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Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act

BILL NO. 32

(as introduced)

3rd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
65 Elizabeth II, 2016



Private Member's Bill



Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act



Tim Houston
Pictou East



First Reading: October 18, 2016

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Notes

Clause 1 provides a short title to the Act.

Clause 2 expands the definition of senior citizen in the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act to include persons aged 65 years and over whose annual income does not exceed $30,000 and makes them eligible to receive a property tax rebate.

Clause 3 sets the property tax rebate at fifty per cent of the actual property taxes paid in the rebate year.

An Act to Amend Chapter 419
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 This Act may be cited as the Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act.

2 (1) Subsection 5(2) of Chapter 419 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (a) the following clause:

(aa) subject to subsection (4), has attained the age of sixty-five years and whose individual annual income does not exceed thirty thousand dollars;

(2) Subsection 5(3) of Chapter 419 is amended by adding ", (aa)" immediately after "(a)" in the last line of clause (b).

(3) Section 5 of Chapter 419 is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsection:

(4) The money required for the purpose of clause (2)(aa) must be paid out of the money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.

3 Chapter 419 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 5 the following Section:

5A (1) Subject to subsection (2), the property tax rebate paid pursuant to clause (b) of subsection (3) of Section 5 shall be fifty per cent of the actual property taxes paid in the rebate year.

(2) The money required for the purpose of subsection (1) must be paid out of the money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.

 


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