Judiciary’s learning-center request reduced from $3.7M to exhibits; chambers deleted $325K increase
Analysts reported the judicial branch reduced a previous $3.7M interactive learning-center request to smaller exhibit funding; both chambers later deleted a $325,000 FY2026 increase and the judiciary is exploring private donations to supplement the project.
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Molly Pratt, fiscal analyst, told the committee the judicial branch reduced its interactive learning-center request from $3.7 million to a phased exhibit approach and submitted a FY2026 revised estimate of $625,000 SGF (a $325,000 increase) and a FY2027 request of $300,000 SGF. Pratt said both the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees subsequently deleted the $325,000 FY2026 funding.
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