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The enacted measure amends Philadelphia’s campaign-finance rules to allow a candidate for City elective office to establish a separate litigation fund. The fund may receive contributions within specified limits and pay professional fees and related costs for defending civil, criminal, or administrative proceedings directly related to the candidate’s campaign or election, but it may not pay fines, penalties, judgments, or settlements. The fund must report its contributions and spending to the Board of Ethics and generally close after the legal matters are resolved.

Amending Chapter 20-1000 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Political Contributions and Expenditures," by permitting a candidate for elective office to establish a litigation fund to receive contributions and make expenditures for the defense of certain proceedings relating to the candidate's campaign, and further regulating and limiting such contributions and expenditures, all under certain terms and conditions.