Virginia
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
Budget development and execution information, and strategic planning materials.
Part of the comptroller’s office; accounting and financial reporting information.
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, Popular Annual Financial Reports, and other Reports
Links to key Virginia sites with financial, economic, and performance information.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Budget and fiscal analysis with a focus on low- and moderate-income populations and on economic opportunity; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Economic policy and tax reform information with an emphasis on individual liberty and property rights; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Research and training focused on the Commonwealth of Virginia, with attention to the economy and public finance, as well as other topics relating to policy and public management.
Legislative Offices
Reports to the General Assembly by the governor and state agencies, listed by year of publication; some focus on budget or fiscal issues.
Assesses and reports on the performance, efficiency, and effectiveness of state programs and agencies; provides oversight reports on the Virginia Retirement System and other fiscal analysis services to the General Assembly.
Financial and operational audits; part of the legislative branch, the auditor reports through the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
A transparency site with budget, revenue, spending, debt, demographic, and performance information.