Florida
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 requests, appropriation bills, long-term plans, summaries, and fiscal analysis.
Debt overview, bond sales, and other financial information; part of the Board of Administration.
Treasury, accounting, auditing, and other finance functions; elected office.
Financial reports, state payment, contracts, economic incentive material, payroll, and pension information.
Comprehensive site with forecasts on the Florida economy, and on revenues and spending.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Budget and tax analysis; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Government watchdog group that covers taxes, budgets, and pensions; member of the National Taxpayers Conference and the Governmental Research Association.
Budget, tax, and other fiscal issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Tends to be more municipal than state oriented, with a strong focus on fiscal issues, including pensions and other postemployment benefits; covers the relationship between the state and municipalities.
News site offering coverage of budget and other fiscal issues, in addition to political news and analysis.
Legislative Offices
Focused on programs but occasionally produces a report or presentation relevant to finance.