Gary Sifis of the Legislative Fiscal Analystoffice summarized LFA recommendations for the judiciary, including fee-reporting changes, separating court-security funding, refinements to line-item performance measures, and procedural reporting additions. "We added one column in this right hand side that shows what the chair's position is," Sifis said, explaining staff included the chairs' stated positions alongside LFA recommendations to aid the committee's consideration.

Ron Gordon, state court administrator, told the committee the judiciary had cooperated with LFA and supported the recommendations and the chairs' adjustments. "We support all of the recommendations that they have presented to you today and where the chairs have made adjustments to those. We have no concerns with those either," Gordon said, and thanked staff for the review process.

Sifis outlined specific recommendations that could require policy bills (for example, moving reporting for the court-fee report from General Government to the subcommittee) and technical budget changes the LFA considered appropriate to incorporate into the base budget. He highlighted proposals to separate funding for court security to increase transparency and to adjust a fee from $375 to $345 where the LFA found the fee exceeded processing costs.

Sifis also described a set of line-item measures proposed for inclusion in the base budget and said staff would draft bill language if the committee adopted the chair's positions. The committee then voted on motions to adopt the chair position and to authorize staff to prepare a base budget bill incorporating the agreed recommendations.

Representative Ballard moved approval of minutes earlier in the meeting, and later moved creation of a new corrections line item for higher education in corrections; both measures and the larger APB-related motions passed unanimously. Gary Sifis noted one technical carryover: moving funds from a now-defunct corrections line item into the newly created higher-education line item.

Gordon provided additional context on court operations, including a separate LFA-assisted review the courts conducted with the National Center for State Courts and a multi-point implementation plan; he said roughly three-quarters of those recommendations had been fully or partially implemented.

The subcommittee then adopted motions reflecting the chair's positions on accountable-process budget recommendations and authorized legislative staff to include the agreed changes in the committeebase budget bill.