Colorado
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
Budget, revenue forecast, economic outlook, and performance information.
Current and past budget instructions, budget development materials, and supplemental budget information.
Research and reports on the Colorado economy and revenue forecasts.
Reports compare actual spending to appropriated budget amounts; investment, infrastructure, contract, and economic development reports and other information starting with fiscal 2015.
Financial information for fiscal 2014 and prior years.
Investments, financial accountability, public finance, and debt issuance.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Focused on family economic security, with some attention to Colorado budget and fiscal issues.
Focused on social justice and equal access for low-income people, but with modest attention to fiscal issues.
Budget and tax analysis; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Provides research on the Colorado economy, including the impact of tax and spending limitations; member of the Governmental Research Association.
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.
Fiscal research; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Legislative Offices
Appropriations history and reports; briefing documents, glossary, and supplemental recommendations.
Research for the Colorado General Assembly, including budget, tax, and fiscal policy information.
Annual and other reports with fiscal themes, such as the annual Colorado Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Summary Report.