City of Philadelphia - File #: 130544

• File #: 130544
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 6/13/2013
• In control: Committee on Law and Government
• Final action: 9/26/2013
• Title: Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter confirming Council's power to enact provisions Council considers necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purposes of a Minimum Wage and Benefits Ordinance, including, but not limited to, provisions mandating that minimum wage and benefits requirements be passed along to subcontractors on City contracts and subrecipients of City financial assistance, with debarment as a potential penalty for violation of such provisions; and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Green, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Bass, Council President Clarke, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Kenney
• Indexes: MINIMUM WAGE, PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
9/26/2013	1	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	17:0
9/19/2013	1	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
9/18/2013	0	Committee on Law and Government	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/18/2013	0	Committee on Law and Government	HEARING HELD
9/18/2013	0	Committee on Law and Government	AMENDED
9/18/2013	1	Committee on Law and Government	REPORTED FAVORABLY
6/13/2013	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Referred	Pass

Title
Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter confirming Council's power to enact provisions Council considers necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purposes of a Minimum Wage and Benefits Ordinance, including, but not limited to, provisions mandating that minimum wage and benefits requirements be passed along to subcontractors on City contracts and subrecipients of City financial assistance, with debarment as a potential penalty for violation of such provisions; and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.

Body
WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Rule Act (53 P.S. §13106), an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter may be proposed by a resolution of the Council of the City of Philadelphia adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of its elected members; now, therefore,

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the following amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter is hereby proposed and shall be submitted to the electors of the City on an election date designated by ordinance:


Bold italics indicates matter added by these amendments.
Strikethrough indicates matter deleted by these amendments.

ARTICLE II
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

The Council - Its Election, Organization, Powers and Duties

CHAPTER 3
LEGISLATION

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Section 2-309. Leases and Contracts.

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(5) For purposes of this subsection, "Minimum Wage and Benefits Ordinance" means an ordinance that requires the City, those who contract with the City, and/or recipients of City financial assistance to provide their employees with a minimum level of pay and benefits, and/or that provides that certain or all City contracts include provisions mandating compliance with such a requirement, and that may include such other provisions as Council considers necessary or appropriate to accomplish the purposes of such an ordinance, including, but not l...