State Budget Sources An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses
Texas
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
A variety of audits and reviews covering efficiency, effectiveness, compliance, and financial matters, as well as periodic examinations of retirement systems.
With a structure that is significantly different than budget offices in other states, the board receives and reviews budget submissions from agencies, a job more commonly performed by a governor’s office. The separately elected lieutenant governor, who is part of both the executive and legislative branches, chairs the board and appoints its members.
Focuses on children’s issues, economic opportunity, and social justice, with some attention to budget and finance; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Public policy organization with an emphasis on personal responsibility; includes tax and spending section; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
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.
