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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

Governor’s Office

https://www.flgov.com/

Governor’s Budget Page

http://www.floridafirstbudget.com/

Governor’s Budget Page: Information and Reports

Governor’s recommended appropriations bill, economic outlook, financial outlook, bonding, and other reports.
http://www.floridafirstbudget.com/web%20forms/OtherInfo/OtherInfoMain.aspx

Office of Policy and Budget

Brief description and contact information.
http://www.flgov.com/opb

Fiscal Portal

Large repository of fiscal information, organized by agency and fiscal year.
http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us

Fiscal Portal: Document Type List

Budget requests, appropriation bills, long-term plans, summaries, and fiscal analysis.
http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/DocumentTypes.aspx

Division of Bond Finance

Debt overview, bond sales, and other financial information; part of the Board of Administration.
https://www.sbafla.com/bondfinance/AboutDBF/tabid/1014/Default.aspx

Chief Financial Officer

Treasury, accounting, auditing, and other finance functions; elected office.
http://www.myfloridacfo.com

Division of Treasury

Investment and cash management.
http://www.myfloridacfo.com/Division/Treasury

Transparency Florida

Financial reports, state payment, contracts, economic incentive material, payroll, and pension information.
http://www.myfloridacfo.com/Transparency

Transparency Florida: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports

http://www.myfloridacfo.com/Transparency/FloridaCAFR.aspx

Transparency Florida: Other Financial Reports

http://www.myfloridacfo.com/Transparency/statereports.aspx

Office of Economic and Demographic Research

Comprehensive site with forecasts on the Florida economy, and on revenues and spending.
http://edr.state.fl.us

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

Joint Legislative Budget Commission

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/View_Page.pl

Joint Legislative Budget Commission: Long-Range Financial Outlook

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data/committees/joint/jlbc/Long%20RangeFinancialOutlo…

Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability

Focused on programs but occasionally produces a report or presentation relevant to finance.
http://www.oppaga.state.fl.us

Florida Senate

http://www.flsenate.gov/

Florida Senate: Appropriations Committee

http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/AP/

Florida Senate: Committee Publications

Current and historical Fiscal Analysis in Brief.
http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Publications

Nongovernmental Organizations

Florida Policy Institute

Budget and tax analysis; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.fpi.institute/home

Florida TaxWatch

Government watchdog group that covers taxes, budgets, and pensions; member of the National Taxpayers Conference and the Governmental Research Association.
http://www.floridataxwatch.org

Florida Watchdog.org

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.
http://watchdog.org/category/florida

The James Madison Institute

Budget, tax, and other fiscal issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
http://www.jamesmadison.org

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.
http://collinsinstitute.fsu.edu

Politico Florida

News site offering coverage of budget and other fiscal issues, in addition to political news and analysis.
http://www.politico.com/states/florida
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