Joint Technology Committee
The Joint Technology Committee spent the session authorizing bill drafts rather than passing laws — greenlighting a technical fix to workers' compensation e-filing, a contested push to arm legislative oversight with real teeth, and a 'trust but verify' audit power aimed at the Office of Information Technology.
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“I'm just nervous that even if we did entertain a subpoena to find more information about what we are not able to get our hands on, that there would be an unwillingness to tell us what we want to know because there are no consequences. And without consequences, people will not tell us, and it will be an exercise of futility.”
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Sign in to subscribeWelcome to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please call the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley. President Kelty. Here. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez. Vice Chair Tatone. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right, we have a lot on our plate this morning. We are going to start with a vote to draft the CDLE bill. I'm going to pass to Ms. Falco, explain what that looks like and then we'll, we'll go from there. Samantha Falco, Legislative Council Staff this is on behalf of the Department of Labor and Employment. The divisions of workers compensation has two separate but related technology upgrades happening and the first being for an electronic data filing system and an internal claim management system. These have all been appropriated and approved by the legislature but they are requesting that the committee helps by changing the statute to allow to update the Workers Compensation act to modernize filing requirements and clean up some outdated requirements. So it's a technical statute change just to allow for change in their electronic filing processes. Okay, fantastic. And just so we can understand what is the origin of this bill? Draft, draft, request. CDLE came. They did present this to the committee when…
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