Legislation & Rules Committee holds Board Bill 22 over missing and mis‑placed floor amendments

The St. Louis City Legislation & Rules Committee delayed engrossing Board Bill 22 on June 22 after members discovered that several amendments adopted on the floor were not present or were inserted in the wrong place in the engrossed copy.

Chair Velasquez opened the segment asking staff to confirm that dates, figures, cross references and citations had been reviewed; clerks initially certified legal and fiscal review, but committee members then began line-by-line checks and found multiple inconsistencies between the committee’s red-line amendments, the mayor’s ENA summary and the version printed for the committee.

Why it matters: several of the missing or misplaced edits affect reporting requirements and compliance language that the committee and floor amended Friday. Committee members singled out the bill’s reporting and metrics language (added subsections requiring quarterly and annual metrics reporting), an MWBE reporting subsection and a renamed fund that appears both as the “downtown revitalization fund” and the “downtown neighborhood plan implementation fund” within the same paragraph. The clerk cautioned that some of the discrepancies likely resulted from how the PDF page numbering and the exhibit page numbering map to the board bill pagination.

Madame Clerk told the committee that the materials circulated included the exhibits and the ENA summary but that some new floor text had not been merged into the engrossed draft the committee members held. Chair Velasquez said the differences were significant enough to prevent formal engrossment and asked staff to reconcile the floor changes and fix formatting and section numbering before returning the bill.

Representative quote: Madame Clerk certified the review initially and reported, “Yes,” when asked whether figures and citations had been reviewed by legal and the financial analyst, but later acknowledged that some floor changes were not yet incorporated into the engrossed copy and required correction.

The committee’s action: Members agreed to hold Board Bill 22 and not to engross it until clerks update the engrossed version to include all floor amendments, correct displaced text (including moving section 8 out of section 7 where it had been plopped in), and unify inconsistent fund naming. The chair said the bill will be brought back for engrossment after those corrections are verified.

Next steps: Clerks will reconcile the ENA/floor edits with the engrossed copy and re-submit Board Bill 22 to the committee once the language, exhibits and pagination are aligned. The committee did not take a final vote on the substance of the bill during this session.