Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee adjourns after sponsors fail to present bills, SB252 delayed by amendment

The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee adjourned after failing to hear scheduled bills, including SB252, because sponsors were not present and an amendment delayed consideration, the committee chair said.

Committee business was limited to procedural remarks and a recess after the chair said SB252 would not run that day because “there's an amendment being added, from what I understand from the sponsor,” and that two other bills scheduled for the committee had sponsors serving in another committee.

The chair told members and the public the meeting would wait briefly for sponsors to arrive, but when they did not appear the committee recessed and subsequently adjourned without taking any formal actions on the scheduled bills. “The members have not made it to present their bill. So I'm going to give you some of your time back for today, and we're going to call this meeting adjourned,” the chair said.

No votes, motions, or formal hearings on SB252 or the other scheduled items are recorded in the meeting transcript. The chair characterized the day as a “dry hole” and released members and the public before adjourning.

The transcript does not specify a rescheduled hearing date or further procedural steps for SB252 or the other items mentioned. Details about the amendment to SB252 and the identities of the absent sponsors were not specified in the transcript.