Official:Amending Chapter 21-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Scholarships," by creating a program to solicit contributions to the CORE Philly scholarship program through the use of a "check-off" box on customer bills issued by the Water Revenue Bureau and the Philadelphia Gas Works, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Sanchez
Introduced: June 19, 2008
: Committee on Finance
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 allows customers of the Water Revenue Bureau and Philadelphia Gas Works to donate extra money on their bills to a scholarship program for Philadelphia residents called CORE Philly.
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