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Committee restores expungement pass-through, funds specialty courts and orders court-reporter pay review
Summary
The House Committee on General Government Budget voted to maintain a $200,000 expungement pass-through for FY2026, reduced a credit-monitoring reappropriation for FY2025 to $250,000, and approved $1.5 million to start specialty courts funding plus a 5% raise for court reporters to be priced later.
The Committee on General Government Budget took several funding actions for the judicial branch during its budget review, restoring an expungement pass-through, reducing a reappropriation for credit monitoring and approving initial funding for specialty courts and a 5% pay increase for court reporters.
Representative Turk moved to keep a $200,000 pass-through for an expungement grant for fiscal year 2026; Representative Melton seconded the motion and the committee approved it by voice vote. "When they came to us…
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