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State Budget Issues

Check The Fiscal Link for all the latest news from the states!

Reports and Publications on Budget Issues

Not all publications are available freely to the public. Call NCSL's book department to order.

Periodic Reports and Updates

• State Budget Actions, yearly; with a preliminary report released at the Legislative Summit.
• State Budget Update, two or three times annually.
• Rankings of Major State and State-Local Revenues and Expenditures, per Capita and per $100 of Personal Income.
• Pensions and Retirement Plan Enactments, yearly.

General and Miscellaneous Budget reports and information

• Fiscal Analysis Careers in State Legislatures: a video from NALFO provides an inside look at the challenging and rewarding work of the legislative fiscal analyst, fall 2007.
• New Realities in State Finance: Executive Summary. April 2004
• State Spending in the 1990s. July 2003
• Gross State Product and State Expenditures and Personal Income as Percentages of GSP, 2003. January 2006
• The Cost of Fiscal Uncertainty and Mechanisms for Fiscal Discipline, May 2000
• Is the Global Economy Leaving State-Local Tax Structures Behind? March 1999
• Legislative Oversight of Federal Funds, posted September 2004
• States Broaden the Scope of Rainy Day Funds, 1995.
• Tobacco Settlement legislation, 2000.
• Year-End Balances (in pdf) or html (public). LegisBrief, March 2007
• State Strategies to Manage Budget Shortfalls (Foundation Fiscal Partners)
• Fundamentals of Sound State Budgeting Practice (Foundation Fiscal Partners)

Bonds and Debt

• State and Municipal Bond General Elections 2006: Voter Approval Rate Exceeds Average. November 2006
• State and State Authority Debt Issuance: 1996-2005, October 2006.
• State Budget Rules and Borrowing Costs

Expenditures

Corrections

• State Funding for Corrections in FY 2006 and FY 2007. May 2007
   

  Medicaid

• Medicaid Cost Containment Measures in 2005 Legislative Sessions. June 2006
   

  SCHIP

• State Children’s Health Insurance Program Efforts Gain Momentum, December 2000
• New SCHIP Enrollment Figures, February 2001
• SCHIP Funds Are Redistributed, April 2001

  Transportion

• State Transportation Funding in 2007
• Transportation: Incentive Grants Awarded to 17 States, 1999

Legislative Budget Procedures

• Annual and Biennial Budgeting, revised October 2004
• Benefits and Problems Associated with Changing Budget Cycles. December 2002
• Constitutional Provisions Requiring a House of Origin for Revenue Bills
• The Fiscal Note Process in State Legislatures (by Violet Baffour, North Carolina General Assembly, Fiscal Research Division
• Legislative Operating Budgets: Format and Procedures
• Legislative Operating Budgets: Format and Procedures
• Late Budgets (pdf) and html (public). LegisBrief, August 2004
• Legislative Budget Procedures
• Supermajority Votes Required to Pass the Budget
   

  Balanced Budgets

• State Balanced Budget Requirements: Provision and Practice
• The Balanced Budget Amendment -- The Road to Ratification

Local Governments

• State Aid to Local Governments, April 2006
  
• State Law and Local Financial Management. January 2005
• Foundation Fiscal Partners: Critical Issues in State-Local Fiscal Policy: Sorting Out State and Local Responsibilities: Executive Summary

Performance-Based Budgeting

• Legislative Use of Performance Information, October 2005
• Asking Key Questions: How to Review Program Results, updated March 2008
• Governing for Results: State Performance Reporting and Budgeting: Accountability In The States
• Lessons Learned: What Experience Teaches about Performance-Based Budgeting and Reporting

Projects Regarding Budget Issues

• State Performance Reporting and Budgeting: Governing for Results and Accountability in the States
  with the Urban Institute
• Foundation Fiscal Partners

Budget-Related Sessions in Upcoming Meetings

Annual Legislative Summit

The next Legislative Summit will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 2009.

Fiscal Analysts Seminar

The next NCSL Fiscal Analysts seminar will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, in September 2008.

Fiscal Leaders

The next Fiscal Leaders seminar will be held in December 2008.

Updated July 2008.
Email statefiscal-info@ncsl.org for more information.
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