Texas
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
Elected official who serves as chairman of the Legislative Budget Board.
Governor’s proposed budgets, operating and agency budget instructions, and strategic planning information.
Elected official with oversight of state finances, accounting, financial reporting, taxes, revenue estimating, and treasurer functions.
Site includes budget, revenue, spending, debt, financial forecasts, investment, and contract information.
A variety of audits and reviews covering efficiency, effectiveness, compliance, and financial matters, as well as periodic examinations of retirement systems.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Focuses on children’s issues, economic opportunity, and social justice, with some attention to budget and finance; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Policy research that delves into tax and other finance issues with a focus on economic impact.
Public policy organization with an emphasis on personal responsibility; includes tax and spending section; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Focuses on Texas fiscal policies and impact on businesses; member of the Governmental Research Association and the National Taxpayers Conference.
Legislative Offices
With a structure that is significantly different than budget offices in other states, the board receives and reviews budget submissions from agencies, a job more commonly performed by a governor’s office. The separately elected lieutenant governor, who is part of both the executive and legislative branches, chairs the board and appoints its members.
In-depth reports of Texas agencies and boards, including retirement systems and other organizations relevant to state finances.