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Philadelphia City Council committee adopts amendments and advances multiple bills to full council
Summary
A committee of the Philadelphia City Council adopted amendments to four bills and voted to report several bills to the full council with a motion to suspend the rules for expedited consideration; the meeting recessed for caucus afterward.
A committee of the Philadelphia City Council adopted amendments to multiple bills and voted to advance several measures to the full council, the body announced at the close of its meeting.
Council Member Katherine Gilmore Richardson, majority leader, offered and moved the adoption of amendments to four bills — 260199, 2602000, 260201 and 260203 — and each amendment was seconded by Majority Whip Isaiah Thomas and approved by voice vote. "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I offer an amendment to bill number 260199," Richardson said when introducing the first amendment. The chair called for votes, and members signaled approval verbally.
The committee then moved to report the four amended bills to the full council with a favorable recommendation and asked that the council rules be suspended to allow consideration at the next council session. "It has been moved and properly seconded that bills number 260199, 2602000, 260201 and 260203 as amended be reported from this committee with a favorable recommendation," the chair stated before the voice vote.
Separately, Richardson moved that bills 260204, 260205 and 260206 be reported from the committee with a favorable recommendation and that the rules be suspended to permit their consideration at the next session; that motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. Councilman Isaiah Thomas and Councilman Ketch Lazada were noted as seconding the motion on the latter group.
Earlier in the meeting the chair noted for the record that bills 260208 and 260209 and resolution 260227 would be held and not acted on at this session. The committee concluded its business and recessed to a caucus in the same room.
No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; votes were taken by voice. The committee did not provide details in the meeting transcript about the substantive content of the bills or the text of the adopted amendments beyond the procedural motions recorded. The next procedural step is for the reported bills to appear on the full City Council agenda for consideration under the suspended rules, per the motions approved at the committee meeting.
