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Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent its post-adjournment session grinding through the judicial branch and independent-agency budgets — holding the branch's top-priority judges bill amid a separation-of-powers standoff, trimming interpreter funding below staff's number, and carving out $2 million to begin working the CBI DNA-testing cases tied to former analyst Missy Woods.
Key Actions
·Judicial IT capital — case management systemPassed
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Notable Quotes
“it is a core function of government and we can't starve one branch and tell them they can't do their job.”
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We are figure setting on the Judicial Department, starting with Ms. Bickle. Good morning. So. So this is just the courts and probation sections and so my tables in here are really just courts and probation. So I will just, you know, point you to page two. Despite my best efforts, we are still looking at a 6.6% increase in general fund. It's really all common policy. Like it's, that's is the whole story here and you can kind of nibble around the edges, but it's really hard to do anything without common policy. I am also then going to just jump you to page eight where I show we don't need to go through all of this now. But I'll just note I do have major differences from the request and I've put those together in a table, but I will mostly then go to the substance and we can work through all those differences as we get to them. So with that on page 10, we have the IT capital judicial case management system. So because it's a separate branch, this gets handled in the operating budget discussion instead of the IT capital. But you did refer it…
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