Alabama
State Budget Sources
State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses is 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 the links below 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
Transparency and accountability website with information on spending, state properties, meetings, campaign finance, higher education, and ethics.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Coverage of budget, pension, and other fiscal issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Concerned more with policy than fiscal affairs but some coverage of budget and tax issues, including the Alabama Tax and Budget Handbook; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Provides research on issues including budget and finance; 2016 annual meeting focused on Alabama’s budget process; member of the Governmental Research Association, a national organization of individuals professionally engaged in governmental research.
Legislative Offices
Budget spreadsheets, tax information, annual budget fact publications, and annual presentations on Alabama's Finances.
Financial audits of state, agency, county, and other entities that disperse public funds.