Utah
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
Comprehensive website with governor’s budget documents, legislative enactments, and information on revenue forecasts, budget drivers, planning, and budget process.
Methodology, documents, revenue estimates, and implementation.
Oversees accounting, financial reporting, and other fiscal functions; part of the Department of Administrative Services.
Financial highlights and reports; administered by the division of finance and overseen by the Utah Transparency Advisory Board.
Prepares revenue forecasts in cooperation with the governor’s staff; estimates fiscal impact estimates of proposed legislation and publishes statistical reports relating to taxes.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Policy analysis and some attention to budget issues, with an annual report on Utah and budgeting in other Western states.
Reports focusing on spending, taxes, and bonds, and one from 2015 on consensus revenue estimating.
This nonprofit, in Draper, Utah, advocates limiting state and local taxes. Its Fast Tax is a comprehensive annual booklet listing state levies and the amount of revenue they produce. The group also publishes a blog, notes on tax proposals, and position papers.
Focuses on policies related to children, with some attention to the consequences of budget decisions; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Legislative Offices
Budget information, revenue estimates and updates, issue briefs, Fiscal Highlights newsletter.
General policy research, including presentations on funding policies and occasional briefs on fiscal issues.