Tennessee
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 budget documents, presentations, and revenue information.
Comprehensive annual financial reports and other postemployment benefit actuarial reports.
Site includes Fiscal Strength and Financial Overview sections, as well as links to information on the state’s bond ratings, rainy day fund, and debt and taxes per capita; run by the governor’s office.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Concentrates on tax and spending issues; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Independent public policy research center with ongoing coverage of state budget issues.
Legislative Offices
Current and past budget and appropriations documents, as well as session summaries.
Statutory oversight panel that provides review of budget, reserves, debt, and revenue collections.