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 an amendment of The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the creation, appointment, powers and duties of a DHS Community Oversight Board; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Jones
Introduced: February 20, 2014
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2012–2015 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 to create an independent Department of Human Services (DHS) Community Oversight Board and put it up for a vote by Philadelphia residents on May 20, 2014.
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