South Dakota
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
Current and past governors’ budgets, enacted budgets, revenue forecasts, economic reports, and session documents.
Financial publications, as well as budget, contracts, payroll, and state checkbook information.
Manages state assets from retirement systems, public trust funds, and other sources.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Research topics include taxes, spending, and other fiscal practices; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Research and education on fiscal policies and economic opportunity; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Legislative Offices
Budget information and reference materials, such as issue papers, required reports, and external links, are available from the Legislature’s home page, which doubles as the home page for the Legislative Research Council.
Some of the required reports connect with fiscal topics, such as the funded status of retirement systems.
Generally focused on financial and compliance audits, with expanded scope and performance audits sometimes spurred by legislative requests.