Official:Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing amendment of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide within civil service regulations for the posthumous promotion to the next rank for any Philadelphia police officer or firefighter who is killed or who dies in the line of duty, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot question to be voted on; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Blackwell
Introduced: October 16, 2008
Signed: April 2, 2009
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill proposes to amend the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide posthumous promotion to the next rank for any Philadelphia police officer or firefighter who is killed in the line of duty.
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