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

Ohio

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://www.governor.ohio.gov/

Office of Budget and Management (OBM)

Budget, accounting, financial reporting; debt and other fiscal functions.
http://www.obm.ohio.gov

OBM: Ohio’s Interactive Budget

Financial overview and details on revenues, budgets, and expenses, with links to information on topics such as Medicaid, capital funding, and school foundation funding.
http://interactivebudget.ohio.gov/

OBM: State of Ohio Budgets

Operating and capital budgets; mid-biennium review of information and links to monthly reports on revenues and budget stabilization information.
http://www.obm.ohio.gov/Budget/default.aspx

OBM: State Debt Overview

http://www.obm.ohio.gov/BondsInvestors/debt/default.aspx

OBM: Financial Reports

Comprehensive annual financial reports, OBM monthly financial reports, treasurer’s state debt reports, and state retirement systems reports.
http://www.obm.ohio.gov/BondsInvestors/financialreports.aspx

Treasurer of Ohio

Cash, investment, and debt management.
http://www.tos.ohio.gov

Treasurer of Ohio: OhioCheckBook

Transparency site with details on state spending.
http://tos.ohio.gov/Transparency/Ohios-Online-Checkbook

Treasurer of Ohio: Treasurer’s Reports

http://tos.ohio.gov/reports

Treasurer of Ohio: Debt Management

http://tos.ohio.gov/Investor

Ohio State Auditor

Financial, performance, and special audits and investigations.
http://www.auditor.state.oh.us

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

Ohio Legislative Services Commission (OLSC )

Fiscal and policy research for legislators.
https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/

Ohio Senate: Finance Committee

http://www.ohiosenate.gov/committees/finance

Nongovernmental Organizations

The Buckeye Institute

Research organization concerned with pensions and taxes, with some budget coverage; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org

Policy Matters Ohio

Research organization focused on fairness and economic opportunity issues, with some attention to revenue and budget; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.policymattersohio.org

Ohio 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/ohio

State of Ohio Budget Resource Center

Site that tracks budget news; maintained by the law firm Bricker & Eckler, which practices in a number of government-related specialties.
http://www.bricker.com/resource-center/state-ohio-budget
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