Official:Authorizing and directing the Department of Human Services, or such other office as the Mayor may designate, to provide emergency shelter to all homeless persons in the City, along with social, medical, and educational services designed to enable such persons to acquire and retain permanent housing; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Cohen
Introduced: January 28, 2003
: Committee on Public Health and Human Services
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2000–2003 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill directs the Department of Human Services to provide emergency shelter and social services for all homeless persons in Philadelphia, with the goal of helping them acquire and retain permanent housing.
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