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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, March 12, 2026·50m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Technology Committee spent tangling with the fallout of Colorado's new AI law — from a judicial scoring tool its own lawyers won't call a calculator to OIT's staffing request — and pressed OIT over a $36 million surplus in a billing fund lawmakers called a 'black box.' Members approved OIT's R7 common-policy adjustment with a cost-absorption caveat and punted the AI-compliance request to a special Monday meeting.

Key Actions

·Judicial budget requests and AI classification disputeAction

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Notable Quotes

I think we're at an impasse because their lawyers still think that this is AI that's making a decision when it's really a calculator, a spreadsheet which is excluded under this policy.

Robert RodriguezRodriguez framing the core dispute holding up Judicial's IT systems budget — whether a scoring tool counts as AI under SB24-205.

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TranscriptPreview
And JTC will come to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please take attendance. Senators and Representatives Bazley. Present. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez. Here. Weinberg. Absent. Tatone year. Madam Chair, finally here. Thank you for your patience. As we're trying to get started this morning, we've got judicial requests. We took some action last week. We may not to take need to take any further action, but we're going to have Mr. Gravy talk through what we did last week. Mr. Gravy, good morning. DAN Graby Legislative Council Staff As a reminder to the committee, the outcome of the two votes that were taken on the Judicial department requests last week was a approval for a recommendation to fund the operating request and the failed vote on the IT capital system request. And so that that was the outcome of the two votes that were taking on the Judicial department request last week. Discussion on that. Senator Rodriguez? Thank you, Madam Chair. I had a meeting with with the with the Judicial Department to discuss why they were in the OIT operating budget and also going through that their assessment which I will share with you guys offline because I'm getting a
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