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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, March 5, 2026·53m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Technology Committee split over the Judicial Department's IT budget, reversing itself on an infrastructure operating request that would increase the operating budget by $6.7 million and voting it down 3-2 until it gets answers about AI-related costs, while advancing a $3.2 million case-management modernization only after pointed questions about whether the software would make decisions about people in court.

Key Actions

·Judicial Department R6 IT infrastructure operating requestFailed

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Notable Quotes

Thank you. Madam Chair, Based on that, I would like to pause if we're in voting on this, if we haven't got that information yet

Robert RodriguezRodriguez's move to hold the operating request until the committee learns whether AI-bill implementation costs are tied to it — the concern that ultimately sank the recommendation on reconsideration.

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To order. Mr. Gravy, will you please call the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley. Present. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez Weinberg. Excused. Tatone. Madam Chair, here. Thank you everyone for your patience. As we got a good group here to get started. We have three things we're going to talk about today. We've got Judicial Department budget requests, recommendations that we are going to take action on. We are going to move up our other committee business to talk about the revised AI questions that we're going to be sending to departments soon, as soon as we can get this approval. And then we're going to move into a presentation from OIT and we're going to talk about R1, R7, as well as the restructuring of OIT. So we've got a lot ahead of us. We are going to start with the Judicial Department budget request recommendations. As you will recall, there are two projects in front of us. One is the case management system modernization and one is the ongoing budget. So are there questions about the requests? We have folks in the audience who can answer those. Okay. Baseley has no questions. Okay. So we have the opportunity to either
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