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Attorney general asks for flat budget, highlights opioid settlement, tech litigation, robocall and consumer enforcement wins
Summary
Attorney General presented a no-increase budget request to the committee, reviewed major litigation priorities including the opioid settlement and big-tech and robocall efforts, and summarized recoveries from consumer- and Medicaid-related enforcement.
Attorney General testified that his office would seek no increase to its base appropriation and credited recent technology and litigation investments with allowing the office to retain attorneys without a base-budget increase. "I'm proud to be here today to ask you for no increase," he told the committee.
The attorney general provided a divisional overview: about 370 staff manage roughly 27,000 active cases, he said, and the office's litigation work produced recoveries and savings. Notable numbers supplied to the committee included a nearly $1 billion master opioid settlement negotiated for Indiana (with a stated roughly even split between state and local distributions),…
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