A state Senate committee on Thursday voted to slash $500,000 from the Commission on Judicial Performance’s annual budget as the disciplinary agency continues to resist an audit of some confidential records.

The three-senator budget subcommittee, composed of two Democrats and one Republican, did not discuss the proposed cut before voting unanimously to recommend it to the full Senate Budget Committee. A staff report issued before the hearing simply noted that the commission is in ongoing—and so far, successful—litigation to stop portions of an audit ordered by the Legislature in 2016.