After $367.5 million, Texas gets no new child support computer software - just painful lessons
AUSTIN — Budget writers are urging the Legislature to cut off further funding of a massive, 12-year technology overhaul at the state's child support enforcement unit that they say has been a disappointing waste of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Key legislators dropped the bombshell this week over the so-called "T2" project at the attorney general's office.
"Stop the bleeding," said Sen. Jane Nelson, a Flower Mound Republican who is co-chairwoman of the House-Senate budget conference committee.
Added Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a GOP budget writer from Southlake who was instrumental in persuading House colleagues to pull the plug:
"This was a $60 million idea — $340 million ago."
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