State Budget Sources An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses
Florida
This information is an updated excerpt from State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses, 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 links 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
Budget and tax analysis; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Government watchdog group that covers taxes, budgets, and pensions; member of the National Taxpayers Conference and the Governmental Research Association.
A project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, this news organization is dedicated to transparency and accountability, with a mission to “expose the facts about government mismanagement and overreach” and to provide oversight of state government.
LeRoy Collins Institute, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University
Tends to be more municipal than state oriented, with a strong focus on fiscal issues, including pensions and other postemployment benefits; covers the relationship between the state and municipalities.
