ELDERLY

Missouri House of Representatives
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: Allows for premium reductions, in certain cases, when senior citizens take an auto safety course.

: Creates the crime of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person.

: Exempts Social Security benefits from state income tax.

: Allows persons 65 and older to obtain a free nondriver's license with or without a photo.

: Establishes the senior environmental corps.

: Freezes assessed value of real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older and used as a principal residence.

: Creates a $150 state income tax credit for property taxes.

: Freezes assessed value of real property used as a residence by person 65 years of age and older.

: Freezes the assessed value of real property used as a primary residence by persons 65 years of age and older.

: Freeze, for property tax purposes, assessed valuations of homesteads owned by persons eighty years of age and older.

: Expands the Shared Care Program in the division of aging to include persons caring for a disabled individual.

: Creates the crime of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person.

: Makes the shared care tax credit refundable.

: Exempts social security benefits and military retirement benefits from state income tax.

: Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Division of Aging.

: Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act.

: Revises laws relating to protection of the elderly.

: Increases the maximum amount of the pharmaceutical income tax credit from two hundred to seven hundred fifty dollars.

: Increases the household income level for the pharmaceutical tax credit from fifteen to thirty-six thousand dollars.

: Requires pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program to provide Medicare prescriptions at the Medicaid rate.

: Creates new income caps for the circuit breaker.

: Increases the dependency deduction to two thousand four hundred dollars.

: Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.

: Reduces by 50% any fee imposed on a long-term care facility by the Division of Aging if such facility maintains inspection compliance for one year.

: Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for hearing aids.

: Excludes, for purposes of the circuit breaker, social security and railroad retirement benefits from the definition of income.

: Modifies the statutes relating to the qualification and disqualification of employees of the Department of Mental Health and Division of Aging.

: Expands the number of persons eligible for the pharmaceutical income tax credit.

: Increases the resource limits for public assistance eligibility for single and married persons.

: Creates an income tax deduction for amounts paid for custodial care and durable medical equipment to the extent not reimbursed and to the extent not deducted or credited under federal tax law.

: Prohibits taxpayers from double-dipping under the pension exemption in section 143.124.

: Exempts the first six thousand dollars of all public annuities, pensions and retirement income from state income tax.

: Prohibits financial exploitation of the elderly.

: Exempts Social Security income from taxation.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly.

: Exempts social security and military retirement benefits from state income tax.

: Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens.

: Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens.

: Exempts from sales/use tax sales of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults.

: Exempts all retirement benefits from state income tax.

: The Department of Revenue shall advise taxpayers that they are eligible for the pharmacy tax credit.

: Limits or freezes assessed valuation of residential property for certain senior citizens.

: Terminates the certificate of need process for long-term care facilities.

: Makes a technical change regarding what agency certifies a managed care organization.

: The Revenue Department shall notify senior citizens of their eligibility for the pharmaceutical tax credit.

: Individuals sixty-five or older eligible for a tax credit up to $1000 for offsetting costs of medication.

: Gives the Attorney General the additional power to investigate the abuse and neglect of residents of long term care facilities.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly.

: Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities.

: Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons.

: Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities.

: Modifies employee disqualification provisions and payment of fines related to nursing home violations.

: Modifies employee disqualification provisions and various nursing home violations.

: Exempts property owned by senior citizens from property tax.

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