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The Alabama Senate Thursday approved a $3.3 billion General Fund budget for the 2025 fiscal year and a supplemental funding bill for the current year of about $400 million. The General Fund budget number is a record in nominal terms. “We had a lot of collaboration today,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Reed, R-Jasper. […] The post Alabama Senate passes record $3.3 billion General Fund budget appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

The 4th session of the 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly's budget session will commence on Monday at 9:30 AM with the traditional address by Governor R La Ganesan.

Public school advocates like Wisconsin's Jill Underly don't have much official clout, but could have bigger influence on policy in the future.

The House speaker acknowledged “tension” in the party.

You can’t call yourself a conservative, or someone who believes in fiscal responsibility, and also pass school vouchers. | Opinion

When a woman in Chandler took a DNA test, the results led to an Arizona state lawmaker who learned, at 59, he has a daughter he never knew.

On Tuesday, Governor Hochul delivered her 2024 State of the State (SotS), laying out her vision for the year ahead. She focused her speech on proposals for mental health, healthcare,...

It is not possible to directly compare the state budgets of 2023 and 2024 due to differences in how military spending is structured, said Deputy Head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Serhiy Nikolaychuk, in a Jan. 12 interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

The interest payment and debt servicing expenditure has been 12 percent of states’ total revenue spends in FY23, marginally down from 13 percent in FY22.

Income, sales, property and gas taxes: Almost every U.S. state cut at least one such broad-based tax as budget surpluses soared over the past three years. One way or another, whether red or blue, all states save Alaska and Nevada joined in. "Next year will likely be a return to normal for state budgets," said Brian Sigritz, director of state fiscal studies for the National Association of State Budget Officers.