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Joint Budget Committee

Thursday, January 29, 2026·8h 32m·▶ Watch / Listen

In a marathon Joint Budget Committee session, members worked through a long list of HCPF supplemental comebacks — approving most but killing the community connector units FTE on a 3-3 tie and splitting 4-2 over a home-and-community-based services staffer — while a joint sitting with the Joint Technology Committee turned pointed over IT capital costs and disputed price tags for implementing the state's AI accountability law.

Key Actions

·IT capital budget, technology cash fund, and SB 205/AI costsAction

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Notable Quotes

And I said that it was completely outrageous. And lo and behold, it's $3 million to replace a spreadsheet now, which I still think is a little bit high.

Brianna TitoneTitone kept pressure on OIT over IT capital pricing, questioning whether contractor cost estimates are justified during a budget crunch.

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All right, a joint gathering of the joint Budget Committee and joint Technology Committee will commence. So who would like to share with us? No represent Senator Marchman. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for having the joint to Technology committee in front of you today. We usually get together after we make our recommendations. Statutorily we have to come if there's some sort of a disagreement between JVC and jtc. But we decided to come now because last year we were able to claw back a couple million dollars from the original asks of departments. And that's what's in this table. I want to first start with this table. This is just me. Okay. So I don't want. This is like I woke up, put some numbers together, but we're looking at it. But this is basically what the OSPB budget was for last year. It's what, how we prioritized it and it's how we appropriated it. So if you look through those first three columns, you can see that you followed our. Thank you. You followed kind of what we said, what we wanted you to do. If you flip to the. Oh, if you look on
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