Thursday September 2nd 2010

Budget Info

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.

We have also moved all of the posts related to the 2009 budget from the “OpenBudget” website over to this page.  Please click here to visit.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Federal Economic Stimulus Package (NEW!!)
Senate Approp Presentation (NEW!!)
Estimated FY 2009 Teacher Quality Allocations by District and AEA
School Sales/Use Tax for School Infrastructure
Implementation of HF 619 – 2005 Sex Offender Act
Per-Pupil Education Funding
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.
ANALYSIS OF BUDGETS:
LSA Preliminary Summary of Governor’s Budget Recommendations New!
Analysis of the FY 2010 Budget and Department Requests
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
(pdf format – download viewer)
End-of-Session Fiscal Information

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2 Comments for “Budget Info”

  • dan says:

    i think you should cut the salaries of university teachers, and eliminate the sports programs.

  • Rick says:

    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.


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