Kansas
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes the links below to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.
Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices
Governor’s budget documents and comparisons with legislative version; consensus revenue estimates, and economic and demographic information.
Includes proposed budgets, amendments, and veto messages.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Research and analysis on budget and tax issues; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Tax, spending, pension, and economic commentary, with a focus on low taxes; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
The center advances the study of public finance, advises policymakers, and helps inform state fiscal practices. Recent research has covered the impact of board composition on pension funding, debt burden and default risk, and the optimal size of fiscal reserves.