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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, February 26, 2026·33m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Technology Committee held a working session in which no formal votes were taken, advancing plans to stakeholder a proposed AI consequential decision-making bill for state agencies, agreeing to send a ten-question AI use survey to state agencies around March 4th, and raising a significant concern that OIT announced an internal restructuring that claimed JTC member consultation — a claim multiple members disputed.

Key Actions

·No Bill Number – Judicial Department Two RequestsNo Vote

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Controversies

Whether the JTC has shown wisdom in AI regulation and whether Palantir's departure was caused by AI regulation

Senator Baisley argued the committee showed 'an utter lack of wisdom in advancing AI regulation and chasing companies out of the state to the tune of $106 million' with the leaving of Palantir. Senator Rodriguez countered that AI and data privacy is not a partisan issue and questioned whether Palantir's departure was actually caused by AI regulation, suggesting Palantir 'maybe really didn't' leave and 'maybe wanted nicer non disclosure laws to impose on their workers.'

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Notable Quotes

“I have mixed feelings about this because I feel like this body has shown an utter lack of wisdom in advancing AI regulation and chasing companies out of the state to the tune of $106 million. Impacts, economic impact. With the leaving of Palantir on the other hand, I kind of like the idea that we would subject ourselves as a state to our own lack of judgment and there's no risk of the state leaving off from Miami. We can't leave ourselves.”

Senator Baisley — Senator Baisley was responding to Rep. Paschal's proposed bill that would require state agencies to meet explainability and consistency standards before procuring AI software for consequential decisions — the same type of requirements the state imposes on private entities.

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ATC will come to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please call the roll? Senators and Representatives Bazley Present. Pascal Here. Rodriguez. Excused. Weinberg, Good morning. Tatone here. Madam Chair here. All right, today we have in front of us a couple of items. The first is Judiciary and we've got it on our agenda. But I just wanted to acknowledge that we have and I sent this out to everyone on the committee as well as Judicial Department. We have just a few questions. It's been a minute since we saw that presentation, and so we have maybe 10 questions that we've shared with the department. What we've proposed is that they will get the answers to that, send it back to us in writing, and then our staff will send it out to us so that we'll be in a position next week to be able to make take action on this request, these two requests. And so I just would open it up to any conversation on that, if anyone in the committee has any flags or additional questions for the Judicial Department before we release them. And then we'll see them next week, but we'll have our…
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