Bridal Haynes, legislative administrator, briefed the General Government subcommittee April 30 on Legislative Administration's operations, construction progress at the Capitol and a list of policy option package requests to support reopening and expanded operations. "We support the legislative process. We provide services, solutions, facilities, for the public good and support the process," Haynes said.

Haynes said Legislative Administration currently staffs about 83 positions (just over 80 FTE, plus limited-duration CAMS positions) and that key functions include facilities, information services, visitor services, employee services and financial services. She highlighted information-technology and media workloads: the office reported more than 1,000 livestreams and tens of thousands of written testimony submissions handled by OLIS and said IS closed roughly 4,500 work orders in the year to date.

On the Capitol retrofit, Haynes said seismic work is complete for the 38 Building's base isolators and that the project remains on track for a fall reopening of the building. She said the concourse and member amenities will reopen first and the campus grounds will be returned later in the year, with plaza work expected after members move back. "All those 160 base isolators that are the seismic improvements for the 38 Building, they're now released and floating," Haynes said. Haynes and members discussed a possible soft opening in the fall and a larger public ceremonial event before July 2026, the state's semiquincentennial celebration.

Haynes presented several policy option package requests. Items listed included increased media-team staffing to manage five additional hearing rooms and higher streaming demand (biennial cost cited as roughly $85,000 for pay-equity adjustments across the team), a limited-duration OLIS business analyst to support process mapping for technology and stakeholder outreach, a proposal to convert a visitor-services store coordinator from other funds to General Fund, an AI developer position in Information Services, a permanent security technician (currently limited duration), funding for security checkpoint equipment and staffing as more entrances open, and other reclassifications. Some package costs were specified (media-team pay equity: approximately $85,000 biennial; several other items were described without a single biennial total in the presentation).

On operations and customer service, Haynes said key performance measures were strong in most areas and that system uptimes are above 98% for main applications and wireless. She also described visitor-services activity (about 67 school tours and 2,200 students) and facility accomplishments including EV charging station work and hearing-room upgrades. Haynes asked members to pass appreciation to Legislative Administration staff; members did so repeatedly during the presentation.

Haynes closed by asking for committee support as construction wraps up and for continued coordination on staffing and security for the expanded hearing-room and public-flow plans. No committee vote on the listed policy option packages occurred during the informational meeting.