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RandySF

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Tue Sep 24, 2024, 03:57 AM Sep 24

Here's the Constitutional amendment that will be on every Virginia ballot this November

NORFOLK, Va. — Election ballots will be different for voters depending on where they live, but there is one question all voters across the Commonwealth will see on their ballots for the 2024 election.

For the first time since 2020, Virginia ballots will ask voters to decide on a constitutional amendment change with a "yes" and "no" choice.

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended so that the tax exemption that is currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action is also available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty?

Right now, the Virginia Constitution allows the General Assembly to exempt from taxation the the residence of a surviving spouse of any soldier who is determined by the U.S. Department of Defense to have been killed in action.

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT
Some deaths suffered by active duty military members may not, in some situations, be classified as "killed in action."






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