Louisiana Budget & Louisiana Legislature

If you are interested in following the Louisiana state budget during the current Louisiana legislative session you may find these webpages helpful:

The General Appropriations Bill is always designated as HB 1. You can find the latest one here.

Executive Budget documents are available through the Division of Administration Office of Planning and Budget.

Home Page of the Louisiana House Committee on Appropriations

The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget

Louisiana House Legislative Services' Fiscal Division posted their Appropriations publications & presentations.

Louisiana House and Senate Agendas, Schedules and Video are available on the Louisiana House and Louisiana Senate Home Pages.

The current day's agendas and live video are posted on the Legislature's Home Page under "Today at the Capitol" at http://www.legis.state.la.us/.

An explanation of state government finance is given in State and Local Government in Louisiana, an Overview: 2008-2012 Term. Go to Chapter 2, Part A.

It's a large document! The table of contents tells you what page each agency/department is on (i.e. the Department of Education budget information starts on page 281).

For future reference, if you ever want to look at HB 1 for budget information in any government agency/department in Louisiana, just go to http://www.legis.state.la.us/ and scroll down the page till you see "Bill Search" and some search drop down menus that say "Select a session" (you can search all the way back to 1997 online! The older bills are in our stacks up here on the 4th floor) and where it says "Select a specific instrument" it says "HB" and type in "1" in the box. It lets you search by keyword too so you could type "education" and that budget HB 1 will always be the first result. Then you just click on the bill you want to see and click on the link that say "Text - Current" to see the PDF full text of the bill.