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

Rhode Island

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

Office of Management and Budget

Current and prior-year budgets, with budget primer, revenue, and caseload data, as well as performance information.
http://www.omb.ri.gov/budget

Office of Management and Budget: Revenues and Caseload

http://www.omb.ri.gov/budget/revenues/index.php

Rhode Island Office of Accounts and Control: Financial Reports

Comprehensive annual financial reports, quarterly reports, comparative revenue reports, and other postemployment benefit information.
http://controller.admin.ri.gov/Financial%20Reports/index.php

Transparency Portal

Spending, revenues, contracts, employee compensation, tax credits, and performance.
http://www.transparency.ri.gov

Treasurer’s Open Data Portal

http://data.treasury.ri.gov

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

House Fiscal Office

Briefings, presentations, and analysis.
http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/HouseFinance

Rhode Island Auditor General

Financial and performance audits for the General Assembly.
http://www.oag.ri.gov/mission.html

Nongovernmental Organizations

The Economic Progress Institute

Budget toolbox and tax coverage with a focus on low- and moderate-income people; was formerly known as The Poverty Institute; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://economicprogressri.org

Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity

Research on taxes, spending, and pensions, with an emphasis on limited government; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
http://rifreedom.org

Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council

Public policy research and education association, with public finance as a key focus; member of the Governmental Research Association.
http://www.ripec.org
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