‘Budget’ Archives

Iowa Legislature Opens 2009 Session

The 83rd General Assembly opened the 2009 legislative session at the State Capitol today with a focus on helping Iowans recover from the natural disasters last summer and the difficult economic times.

“Thousands of Iowans are still struggling from last summer’s devastating floods and tornadoes that caused billions of dollars in damages. Our top priority this session is to help Iowans rebuild and recover,” said House Speaker Pat Murphy of Dubuque.

“Of the 46 states currently facing economic hardship, Iowa is in a better position than almost any other state to weather this economic storm. We are one of only a few states that are now net exporters of energy – our investments in ethanol and wind development are beginning to bear fruit and these investments will continue to bring jobs to our state. I believe our future looks bright,” said House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Des Moines. (more…)

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Budgetary & Fiscal Information

The Iowa House of Representatives and the Iowa Senate provide a large amount of information for the public to peruse in the form of fiscal briefings, bill analysis, and other background material.  All of this is produced by a professional, in house, non-partisan staff called the Legislative Services Agency (LSA). This material can help members of the public know what is going on in the legislature, the fiscal impact of various pieces of legislation, and help them find contact information for various agencies and legislators.

Periodically, throughout the year, we will also be posting analysis of legislation produced by the House Democratic Research staff.  The House Democratic Staff has over 100 years of collective experience related to writing and researching legislation.

There are a number of resources for information related to state/local budgets, but here are just a few:

Fiscal Services – Provides fiscal and budget analysis, state government oversight evaluation, and staffs all standing, statutory, Council, and interim study committees.

Custom reports on appropriations bills – with line item detail – http://www.legis.state.ia.us/prod2.0/tracking/BuildTracking.aspx

Sales tax rate look-up – https://www.idr.iowa.gov/salestaxlookup/
Department of Management – http://www.dom.state.ia.us/index.html
Local Budgets – https://www.iowaonline.state.ia.us/localbudgets/default.aspx?cmd=gotopublicsite

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Governor’s 2010 Budget Recommendation

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Overview of the Budget

• The Governor is proposing a general fund budget of $6.2 billion, with an ending balance of $75.7 million. The FY 2010 budget represents an increase of $115.2 million over the adjusted FY 2009 budget. The general fund budget grows over FY 2009 because the Governor recommends mov-ing $203.7 million in spending into the general fund that was previously funded from other funds outside the general fund. He is doing this to improve budget transparency. However, if you ad-just for the shifts in spending growth, his budget is actually $88.5 million less (or 1.4% less) than in FY 2009.

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Transportation & Infrastructure

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Department of Transportation (DOT)

The Governor funds DOT operations for FY 2010 basically at their request level.  This money is from the Road Use Tax Fund; it does not come from the general fund.  It includes $302.4 million from the Primary Road Fund and another $51.4 million from the Road Use Tax Fund.

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Justice Systems Budget

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Since the courts are an independent branch of government, the law requires the Governor to pass on their budget requests directly to the Legislature without recommendation.

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