Joint Technology Committee

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

The Joint Technology Committee approved OIT's R7 payments adjustment with a caveat on pass-through costs, left OIT's R1 AI compliance request unresolved pending Attorney General input, and confirmed prior-week outcomes in which the Judicial Department's operating budget passed but its IT case management request failed over a dispute about whether its scoring tool constitutes artificial intelligence.

Key Actions

·Judicial Department IT Requests – Prior Week Action ReviewPassed

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Controversies

$36 million excess OIT fund balance and lack of disclosure

Representative Brianna Titone repeatedly pressed Russ Pasquale on when OIT became aware of the $36 million excess above the stated 30 to 45 million dollar fund balance target, why it was not disclosed, and why supplemental processes did not redistribute it, stating 'you had an enormous amount of money extra that you did not need and why did you not bring it to the attention of anyone?' Pasquale stated he could not answer when the $36 million excess became known within OIT, responding 'I don't know the answer to when that 36 million, in what point in time was that known within OIT.' Titone characterized this response as insufficient, stating 'That doesn't answer the question.'

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Notable Quotes

“It turns out that there was $36 million more than you needed in the account and that's what you're giving back. I don't understand how that happens if every year we have that line item in the supplementals in every one of the divisions to give money back and forth, that this $36 million should never have accumulated that much.”
Representative Brianna Titone — Titone was questioning OIT Budget Director Russ Pasquale about why a $36 million excess above OIT's stated fund balance target had accumulated in the IT Revolving Fund and had not been redistributed through the existing supplemental process.

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Votes

Move to approve the R7 budget request for OIT as requested with the caveat of the agency specific direct pass through line item be looked at to reduce to absorb into the revolving cash fundPassed

Yes (5)Mark Baisley, Amy Paschal, Robert Rodriguez, Brianna Titone, Janice Marchman

Absent (1)Ron Weinberg

Judicial Department operating budget request (prior week vote — motion text not stated verbatim in this transcript)Passed

Judicial Department IT capital system (case management) request (prior week vote — motion text not stated verbatim in this transcript)Failed

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TranscriptPreview

And JTC will come to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please take attendance. Senators and Representatives Basley. Present. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez 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 copy…

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