City of Philadelphia - File #: 030420

• File #: 030420
• Version: 1
• Type: Bill
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 5/29/2003
• In control: Committee on Rules
• Final action: 6/12/2003
• Title: Declaring it desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people in the area served by Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which operates a graduate school of medicine under the authority of Drexel University and provides medical education under the name "Drexel University College of Medicine," and which operates facilities at its Center City Hahnemann campus and its Queen Lane campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to undertake a project for Drexel University College of Medicine.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Clarke
• Indexes: HOSPITALS & HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES AUTHORITY

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
7/7/2003	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/12/2003	1	CITY COUNCIL	READ
6/12/2003	1	CITY COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
6/5/2003	1	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
6/5/2003	1	CITY COUNCIL	SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL	Pass
6/5/2003	1	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
6/4/2003	0	Committee on Rules	HEARING HELD
6/4/2003	0	Committee on Rules	AMENDED
6/4/2003	1	Committee on Rules	REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
5/29/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
5/29/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Declaring it desirable for the health, safety and welfare of the people in the area served by Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which operates a graduate school of medicine under the authority of Drexel University and provides medical education under the name "Drexel University College of Medicine," and which operates facilities at its Center City Hahnemann campus and its Queen Lane campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to undertake a project for Drexel University College of Medicine.
Body
WHEREAS, The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia, a body politic and corporate, was duly incorporated February 19, 1974 pursuant to an Ordinance duly approved January 28, 1974, under the Municipality Authorities Act (the Act of June 19, 2001, P.L. 287, as amended (the "Act")); and

WHEREAS, The Act specifies inter alia, that the purpose of an authority shall be for "acquiring, holding, constructing, financing, improving, maintaining and operating, owning, leasing, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, projects [including] . . . eligible educational institutions . . . "; and

WHEREAS, Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation, which operates a graduate school of medicine under the authority of Drexel University and provides medical education under the name "Drexel University College of Medicine" (the "University"), owns and operates an independent institution of higher education located in and chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, which is operated not for profit and is not a theological seminary or school of theology or a sectarian or denominational institution; and

WHEREAS, the University constitutes an eligible educational institution within the meaning of the Act; and

WHEREAS, the Uni...