Official:Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter requiring the inclusion of liquidated damages provisions in City contracts that require City contractors to abide by the terms of economic opportunity plans, and requiring such liquidated damages provisions to be "passed along" to certain other parties; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Nutter
Introduced: April 3, 2003
: Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
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.
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This bill requires city contractors to include liquidated damages provisions in contracts related to economic opportunity plans and to pass these provisions along to subcontractors or other parties.
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