Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4608 Primary Sponsor:Rudnick Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Homestead exemption, consumer price index Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Computer Document Number:JIC/5402HC.94 Introduced Date:19940126 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940126 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rudnick G. Brown Baxley Govan J. Bailey Inabinett Sturkie Harrison Harrell McAbee Delleney Barber R. Young Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4608 House 19940126 Introduced, read first time, 30
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 12-37-250, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, SO AS TO REQUIRE THE EXEMPTION AMOUNT TO BE ADJUSTED ANNUALLY TO OFFSET INCREASES IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND TO PRESCRIBE THE PROCEDURE FOR MAKING THE ADJUSTMENT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 12-37-250 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 54 of 1991, is further amended by adding at the end:
"The exemption amount provided in this section must be adjusted annually in the same manner that income tax brackets are adjusted as provided in Section (1)(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, mutatis mutandis. The exemption amount, as adjusted, applies in place of the amount provided in this section for the next tax year. The Comptroller General shall make the appropriate calculation and notify county auditors of the adjusted exemption amount."
SECTION 2. The inflation adjustment required by the amendment to Section 12-37-250 of the 1976 Code contained in this act must first be made for the exemption amount applicable for the 1994 tax year.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.