State budgets

The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement bill,if passed, could wipe out some hesitations for issuers hoping to finance their own marijuana facilities.

The spending plan includes $2 billion toward a 16-year transportation package.

Illinois' current budget surpluses offer an opportunity to help bolster the state's fiscal foundation as it navigates persistent pension strains and economic threats, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability said.

A forecast anticipates an additional $1.2 billion in revenues for the upcoming fiscal year.

For a third spending cycle in a row, there was tension over funding for the Kentucky Wired public private partnership deal.

Illinois lawmakers are advancing a bill that allocates $2.7 billion of the state's ARPA relief to pay down a $4.5 billion federal unemployment insurance loan.

Gov. Phil Murphy proposes to make an additional $1.3 billion deposit into the state’s Debt Defeasance and Prevention Fund.

The state's workaround to the cap on state and local tax deductions in the 2017 federal tax law might be artificially elevating the figures.

Florida's economy is stabilizing from the COVID-19 pandemic, but nature and man may bring other threats to its recovery.

Thirty states would have been affected by the plan to claw back $8 billion in unspent ARPA funds to offset the FY22 appropriation.