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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, January 15, 2026·38m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Technology Committee cleared three IT supplemental budget requests, but the marquee $36.1 million overhaul of Colorado's benefits eligibility system drew the only dissents and the sharpest questions about cost overruns and shut-out counties.

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Notable Quotes

Yeah, I have the obvious question from that statement. What happened? How do we not know this?

Amy PaschalPaschal's pointed question captured the committee's concern over a federal compliance issue tied to the firearm background check system; DPS then clarified the state was not yet out of compliance.

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Are you ready? JTC will come to order. Would you please read the roll, Mr. Grady? Senators and Representatives Basley. President Pascal. Here. Rodriguez. Here. Weinberg. Here. Tatone. Here. Madam Chair. Whoops. Here. Today we're going to vote on three supplemental requests. We've already heard the reports from the departments, but we do have staff who could answer questions. So today is just a committee conversation about the supplemental requests and. And then maybe we'll get into a couple other things before February 15th, too. So I'm going to pass to Samantha Falco to explain the process today. Good morning. SAMANTHA Falco, Legislative Council STAFF the Joint Technology Committee is statutorily required to take actions to either recommend or not recommend the following three supplementals. There was one from Department of Public Safety, that is a cash fund request to meet federal requirements for the Colorado Crime Information Center. And then we have one from Metro State University of Denver, also a cash fund request, and that is to implement a student information system transformation. And then finally we have the request from Healthcare Policy and Financing and Department of Human Services, and that is the Reimagining Colorado's Benefit Eligibility
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