Nebraska
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
Options for graphic presentation of revenues and appropriations, with text explanations.
Comprehensive annual financial reports and annual budgetary reports.
Accounting and other administrative functions; supports the budget division.
Transparency site focused on spending and revenues; includes tax expenditure information; produced by the treasurer’s office.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Research on budget, budget process, and revenue; mission is to improve opportunities for all Nebraskans; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Research on taxes and spending; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Legislative Offices
Provides assistance and analysis to Nebraska’s single-body Legislature on fiscal and program issues.
Reports from standing and special committees with both a policy and a fiscal focus.
Research reports and memos, occasionally on fiscal issues; produces Nebraska-At-A-Glance twice a year.