Washington
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 and budget adjustment documents, timetable, process, and expenditure-monitoring reports.
Investments, cash, and debt management; home page includes links to separate topics.
Budget, revenue, and spending data with an emphasis on interactivity and trend information. Joint effort of the Office of Financial Management and the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP).
Budget process, budget documents, popular reports, tax exemption, and other tax studies.
Non-Governmental Organizations
Public policy emphasis, with some budget, tax, and other fiscal coverage; part of the State Policy Network of state-focused, free market-oriented think tanks.
Covers budget and tax issues; member of the Governmental Research Association and the National Taxpayers Conference.
Analysis of current budget and fiscal issues with a view toward “social opportunity for all”; part of the State Priorities Partnership, a network of state organizations coordinated by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Legislative Offices
Fiscal analysis and tracking of budget and budget impact, revenues, expenditures, and other fiscal matters, with links to fiscal publications geared to citizens and decision makers alike.
Performance audits, and program evaluations and analyses.