Georgia
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
Governor’s budget recommendations, appropriation bills, budget summaries, and tax expenditure reports.
Issuance of state debt and application of debt proceeds.
Transparency site with financial reports; expenditure, salary, and tax expenditure information; reports on agency performance.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Works with public officials to improve governance; multiple resources cover topics related to state and local finance.
Assists Georgia decision makers with economic and tax policy, and researches topics associated with Georgia fiscal policy at both the state and local level.
Focuses on budget and tax issues with an emphasis on economic opportunity; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Issues include spending and taxes; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Legislative Offices
Budget documents and process, fiscal highlights, budget hearing calendar.
Focus on current issues, including fiscal impact; Senate newsletters with highlights of past sessions; study committee reports sometimes concentrate on fiscal matters, such as the 2014 reports on infrastructure and education funding.