Allegheny County Council voted 11–1 on June 30, 2025, to hold a motion to pull an ordinance that would place a term‑limits referendum before voters on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.

Councilman Dan Grisbeck, the member who moved to pull the bill from committee, said the goal was to meet the deadline for referendum placement while giving colleagues more time to consider the measure. “The reason that I am making this motion to pull the bill is because for all referendum votes, they need to be passed by council by next week's meeting before we go into recess,” Grisbeck said.

The motion in question, recorded as motion 13594‑25, would pull ordinance 13470‑25 from committee. The ordinance, as described in the motion, would direct that a referendum question amending Article 3, Section 5(b) of the Home Rule Charter of Allegheny County — establishing term limits for a single elected county official — be placed on the Nov. 4, 2025, ballot and would amend related sections of the county administrative code contingent on passage of the referendum.

Council held the motion to the July 8 regular meeting after a roll-call vote that ended 11 in favor and 1 opposed. The motion’s sponsor is identified in the record as council member Chris Beck; Grisbeck made the motion to hold and moved that the item be tabled until next week. The council clerk read the motion into the record before the roll call.

Because the item remains held in committee, no final action on the ordinance has been taken and no change to the Home Rule Charter will occur unless and until council votes to pull the ordinance and then adopts it or places the referendum question on the ballot.

Council members and public commenters spoke in favor of allowing voters to decide term limits, and public commenters urged support for the resolution during the public comment period. The held motion preserves the timetable for ballot certification while giving council additional time to deliberate.