The South Dakota Senate Friday killed a bill that would have expanded a property tax break for permanently and totally disabled veterans.
Senate Bill 126 would have raised the property tax exemption for permanently and totally disabled veterans — and their surviving spouses — from 200-thousand dollars to 300-thousand.
Sponsor Joy Hohn, a Republican from Hartford, told senators the state’s rising home values make the increase necessary. About 4-thousand veterans use the exemption statewide.
But the bill fell 14-to-20. Republican Sen. Taffy Howard of Rapid City, an Air Force veteran, led the opposition.
She argued that the exemption shifts costs onto other taxpayers without fixing the underlying property tax system.
The exemption, which started at 100-thousand dollars in 2007, was last raised in 2024.
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