(Harrisburg) -- Some midstate lawmakers are among those calling for changes to be made to the commonwealth's inheritance tax policies. Republican Representative Gordon Denlinger of Lancaster County has written a bill that proposes getting rid of the tax by 2015. Denlinger says the tax, which helped bring in more than $800 million last year, isn't fair to those Pennsylvanians paying it. "This is a tax on dollars that have been previously taxed," he says. "Individuals work steadily through their lives, they accumulate assets, and then the state comes around for a second bite at the apple, another hit." Republican Representative Scott Perry of York County has a plan to eliminate the tax by 2017. Other lawmakers would like to reduce the rates of the tax or establish a threshold for it. Under the current inheritance tax law, spouses of the deceased don't pay anything, but children pay 4.5 percent, siblings pay 12 percent, and most others pay 15 percent.