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Joint Budget Committee

Monday, March 16, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Budget Committee ground through IT capital, common-policy and agency figure-setting decisions, with most items clearing quietly — but a Bridges-led move to slash the Colorado Lottery's marketing budget split the panel 3-2, and a statewide AI-compliance denial drew an objection from the very member who moved it.

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·IT capital projects and general fund transferPassed

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Notable Quotes

They have legalized something that the people of Colorado did not legalize. And I'm extremely uncomfortable comfortable giving $18 million to advertise that product.

Jeff BridgesBridges' central objection driving the marketing cut, targeting the Lottery's new online gaming product he says voters never approved.

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It's. Okay. Ready? All right. The Joint Budget committee will come to order. We are now figure setting on Capital Construction IT projects. Mr. McClear. Thank you, Madam Chair. Andrew McLear JBC Staff so I have two figure setting presentations for you. The first of these is on IT capital projects. So turning to page one of the IT capital figure setting, just want to give a summary of the JTC recommendation for IT capital projects. As you may recall the for IT capital projects, the processes that the JTC receives these project requests, they have a prioritized list of these projects that they that they then send over to you all for approval of funding. So the JTC is recommending 11 prioritized projects from general fund which includes six state agency and five higher ed projects. Additionally, the JTC is recommending approval of four cash funded projects. The recommendation totals are $9.8 million in general fund and $17.1 million in cash funds. These figures are roughly 2 million more in general fund than the Governor's request and about $0.3 million less than the Governor's request for cash. On page two, this is kind of just an overview of what
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