Official:Amending Title 13 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Water and Sewer," by adding certain standards for Water Department rates and charges by requiring the collection of rates to fund a system of City payment or consumer credits for the cost of work performed to maintain certain water and sewer connections, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember O'Neill
Introduced: October 9, 2003
: Committee on Finance
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 makes the Water Department fix and regulate rates for water and sewer services without needing City Council's approval, and includes fees to fund a system of city payments or consumer credits for repairs and replacements.
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