Official:Amending Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Finance, Taxes and Collections," by adding a new Chapter providing for the exclusion from real estate taxes of a portion of the assessed value of homestead property; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Nutter
Introduced: October 27, 2005
: Committee of the Whole
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2004–2007 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 proposes a new law to exclude $1,000 of the assessed value of homestead property from real estate taxes, starting in Tax Year 2007.
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