Official:Amending Title 22 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Public Employees Retirement Code," to make elected officials ineligible to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP), all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Green
Introduced: January 24, 2008
: Committee on Labor and Civil Service
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2008–2011 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 elected officials in Philadelphia ineligible to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP). Current DROP participants and those with at least 8 years of service will be exempt from this change.
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