State Budget Sources
An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses

Montana

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

http://governor.mt.gov/

Office of Budget and Program Planning

Budget documents, budget memos, and goals and objectives.

http://budget.mt.gov

Office of Budget and Program Planning: Biennial Budgets

Current and past executive budgets.

http://budget.mt.gov/execbudgets

Office of Budget and Program Planning: Biennium Budget Memos

http://budget.mt.gov/budgetmemos

Office of Budget and Program Planning: Goals and Objectives

Statutory guidelines and goals for the budget office.

http://budget.mt.gov/goalsobj

Department of Administration

Financial, accounting, and some Treasury services.

https://doa.mt.gov

Transparency in Government Portal

State checkbook, employee pay information, and links to state data portal.

http://transparency.mt.gov

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

Legislative Fiscal Division

Budget and fiscal analysis; includes a chart of the week, and links to finance committee meetings and publications.

https://leg.mt.gov/css/fiscal/default.html

Legislative Fiscal Division: Fiscal Publications

Budget, budget process, fiscal analysis, and fiscal training guides.

https://leg.mt.gov/css/fiscal/publications.html

Montana Legislative Audit Division

Financial, compliance, and performance audits.

https://leg.mt.gov/css/audit/Default.html

Nongovernmental Organizations

Montana Budget and Policy Center

Commentary on taxes, budget, and the economy, as well as a variety of policy issues, with a focus on low- and moderate-income people; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

http://www.montanabudget.org