2001 Regular Session

SENATE BILL 244

CHAPTER NUMBER: 366 File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 359
Sponsored By:
Senators Miller and Hoffman
Entitled:
Inheritance Tax - Corrective

Synopsis:

Clarifying and correcting inheritance tax law provisions made obsolete by the exemption from the tax for a decedent's lineal relatives and siblings and the repeal of the lineal inheritance tax rate; clarifying the tax's applicability under specified circumstances when property passes to spouses as tenants by the entireties or an application to prepay the tax on a subsequent interest is filed; repealing an elective inheritance tax exemption for farmland passing to lineal relatives of a decedent; etc.

History by Legislative Date

Senate Action
1/25
First Reading Budget and Taxation
Hearing 2/7 at 1:30 p.m.
2/5
Hearing cancelled
Hearing 2/7 at 2:00 p.m.
2/13
Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
2/15
Favorable Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed
2/19
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
4/1
Returned Passed
5/15
Signed by the Governor Chapter 366
House Action
2/20
First Reading Ways and Means
3/14
Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
4/2
Favorable Report by Ways and Means
3/28
Favorable Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed
3/29
Third Reading Passed (138-0)
Sponsored by:
Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
CORRECTIVE LEGISLATION
ESTATES AND TRUSTS
EXEMPTIONS
FARMLAND
INHERITANCE TAX
INTEREST
PENALTIES
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Tax - General
( 7-209 , 7-210 , 7-211 , 7-221 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments: None offered
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
February 19, 2001: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
House
March 29, 2001: Third Reading Passed (138-0)