New Jersey
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
This department is responsible for functions that typically are not housed in state treasuries. They include the Office of Management and Budget, revenue and economic analysis, pensions, property management, information technology, and tax administration, as well as more traditional responsibilities such as investments and debt management.
Debt management, with links to annual debt reports.
Basic budget and financial reports. Publications include Citizens’ Guide to the Budget, and the Reader’s Guide provides information on items such as the budget process; housed in the Treasury Department.
Performance information and reports on revenue, spending, payroll, pensions, and debt.
Summaries of governor’s budget, comprehensive annual financial reports, and reports on pension funds.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Focused on children’s needs, with some attention to budget issues.
Coverage of budget and tax policy; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
News site offering coverage of New Jersey budget and other fiscal issues, in addition to political news and analysis.
Legislative Offices
Umbrella office that includes budget and finance, the legislative auditor, and other public information functions.
Analysis of the governor’s budget, budget resolutions, and Appropriations Act summaries; links to Office of Legislative Services’ periodic revenue updates.
Financial, performance, information technology, and school district audits; special reports as requested by the Legislature.