The Montgomery County Council has moved closer to preventing double payments to county developers. The council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee on Monday voted unanimously to move forward with a bill that forbids development or special taxing districts to foot the bill for infrastructure projects that are eligible to receive funding from other sources.

Introduced last month, the bill was inspired by an incident last year, first reported by The Washington Examiner, in which the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission paid $2 million for a wastewater pump in the West Germantown Development District after the county had paid $3.7 million. As a result, developers were reimbursed for more than they spent.