Subject: HB 1331 Military retirement pay exempt from state income tax

 
HB 1331 has been introduced in the ND Legislature to exempt military retirement pay from state income tax. The community needs to get messages to legislators ASAP, as the bill is being heard in the House Finance and Tax Committee (Wes Belter, Chairman) this week.
 
Note that we have two Grand Forks Legislators as co-sponsors - Rep. Eliot Glassheim and Sen. Connie Triplett. Here is the text for HB 1331http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JAMI0100.pdf
 
 
The public policy benefit that is being promoted to legislators is that we need to retain and recruit military retirees for workforce needs of the state and retirees are ideal, for example, for the UAS opportunities at the GFAFB and associated companies that will support the UAS mission and future opportunities.