The Iowa General Assembly collects a wide array of information that is developed by the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency and it’s Fiscal Services Division. For ease of use we have provided a large amount of their content through this website for easy access.
OTHER BUDGET INFORMATION
- ABOUT LEGISLATION:
- Bill Analysis (NOBA)
- Fiscal analysis of appropriations and ways and means bills. Find bills by session, number, and title.
- Fiscal Notes
- Analysis of the fiscal impact of bills and amendments.
- Fiscal Note Data Requests
- For use by agencies responding to data requests from the Fiscal Services Division.
- Administrative Rules Fiscal Impact
- Analysis of the fiscal impact of changes to administrative rules.
- Tracking
- Current and historical tracking of appropriations throughout the legislative process
- GENERAL BUDGETING INFORMATION:
- Ways and Means
- Estimates and other information related to the Ways and Means Committees
- K-12 Education
- Estimates and other information related to K-12 education and the School Foundation Aid Formula
- Senate Appropriations Committee
- House Appropriations Committee
- Fiscal Committee
- The State Appropriations Process
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i think you should cut the salaries of university teachers, and eliminate the sports programs.
I have a couple of suggestions to balance the budget without placing undo burden on the working poor and middle class. I’m a life long Democrat and I think our elected Democratic officials should start acting like Democrats and not balance the budget on the backs of State workers. Wealthly tax payers have been enjoying tax cut since Reagan was in office and now it’s time for them to pay their taxes. Here are my suggestions:
1) Fines should be structured so that they are proportion of gross income. It’s time for a more progressive and equitable fine structure. For instance a $100 fine for littering for some one making $20,000 per year means the family does not eat, whereas it is pocket change to someone making $200,000 per year. In this example the wealthier taxpayer would pay a $1000 dollar fine for littering. For more serious offenses,for example, a $1000 fine for a taxpayer earning $20,000 would become $10,000 for someone making $200,000 in gross income.
2)Raise the tax on alcoholic beverages. The legilature had no problems taxing cigarettes, now it’s time for alcoholic beverages which affects more families and health to a much greater degree than cigarettes.
3)Do completely away any tax breaks that affect only the wealthy such as the inheritance tax.
4)Do completely away with any tax breaks and give-aways to the ethanol industry. If they can’t compete in the energy market on their own, then it is not a viable energy solution. Plus, it’s immoral to use food for energy.
Why don’t the elected officials cut their pay by 10%. That would save a lot of money. We also need to stop the welfare program by paying them even after they are out of office, as well as continuing to pay for their medical bills. No one pays for mine I work hard for what I have and don’t ask for hand outs. My former employees don’t pay me since I don’t work for them so why do we pay elected officials? Why are we double paying Gov. Terry Branstad? He gets a monthly salary for working and one for being a previous governor. I think this is very wrong and should be corrected immediately. Remember every one when it comes election time who balked and doing their part and who was willing to make concessions. Thank you Barb