Council actions
Philadelphia City Council actions
These are actions recorded in Legistar without a published member-by-member vote. They include unanimous decisions, procedural steps such as hearings, notices and amendments, and other entries such as referrals and signatures.
Action types
Council actions
Procedural actions actions from the January 26, 2017 meeting.
Meeting dates
Showing 1-7 of 7 actions from January 26, 2017
This lapsed resolution would have authorized City Council’s Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings on how repealing the Affordable Care Act could affect Philadelphia residents, especially low-income and elderly people.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings on the impact of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the residents of the City of Philadelphia, and particularly on low-income and elderly populations, and further investigating the City of Philadelphia's preparedness to address the increase of those who would be without adequate healthcare insurance.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about the Board of Health’s tobacco retailing license regulations and their possible effects on local businesses.
Authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to conduct hearings concerning the Board of Health's regulations relating to the Tobacco Retailing License and the impact these regulations could have on local businesses.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized City Council hearings into the sale of tax-delinquent properties that the Philadelphia Land Bank had approved for workforce housing, side yards, and community gardens.
Authorizing the Council of the City of Philadelphia to investigate the recent sale of tax delinquent properties approved for acquisition by the Philadelphia Land Bank for workforce housing, side yards, and community gardens, to assess Land Bank strategies to better support balanced and equitable neighborhood growth, and to explore a moratorium on all lien and sheriff sales of tax delinquent properties.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized Council’s Committees on Legislative Oversight and Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings about raccoon infestations in Philadelphia.
Authorizing Council's Committees on Legislative Oversight and Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings examining the incidence of raccoon infestation in the City of Philadelphia and administrative solutions for the public health concerns posed thereby.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized Council’s Committees on Legislative Oversight and Public Safety to hold hearings on trees and other obstructions blocking Philadelphia alleyways.
Authorizing Council's Committees on Legislative Oversight and Public Safety to hold hearings examining solutions to trees and other obstructions in the City's alleyways.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation to hold hearings on how the presidential election and the upcoming state budget process could affect Philadelphia’s financial condition.
Authorizing the Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation to hold hearings to examine the potential impact of the presidential election and the impending state budget process on the City of Philadelphia's financial condition.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The lapsed resolution would have authorized the joint City Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold public hearings.
Authorizing the joint City Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold public hearings to examine the benefits of having a more robust homeless prevention program in Philadelphia.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.