State budgets

Fitch Ratings placed Alaska's AA-minus issuer default rating on Rating Watch Negative.

Lawmakers missed a March 31 deadline to pass an on-time fiscal 2021 spending plan and officials said that the finalized budget might have $10 billion less in state funding to account for expected losses in tax revenues.

Ron DeSantis says he won’t trim or sign the 2021 state budget yet, but on Wednesday issued a statewide order limiting movement to essential services.

After seven months of surplus revenue, Arkansas seeks to avoid a deficit due to coronavirus fallout.

Gov. Ned Lamont repeated his call amid more deaths from COVID-19 and a budget-deficit forecast that doubled over two months.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the state can afford to keep paying for critical services as the coronavirus toll mounts.

The Department of Finance told department heads it will be re-evaluating budget requests under a workload budget scenario.

Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration places nearly $1 billion of discretionary spending in reserve through the 2021 fiscal year amid economic struggles from virus.

The Disaster Emergency Funding Board, authorized in 1973, will consider Gov. Gina Raimondo's request for up to $300 million short term borrowing.

Despite rising 3% in 2019, DiNapoli expects bonuses to drop this year.

Eric Holcomb said the state will consider using bond authority to move forward with capital projects that were to have been funded on a pay-go basis.

The municipal bond market is facing a new reality as yields rise, issuance slows and investors remaining skittish about the future.

The majority of the economic disruption will occur in fiscal 2020, but the revenue impacts will extend into the first half of fiscal 2021, says Moody's Analytics Dan White.

When lawmakers cast the final vote on the 2021 budget, they won’t have updated revenue projections but other states and industries do.

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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released updated state revenue projections.

Lawmakers return to the state capital to formally approve the budget Thursday amid concerns over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Chris Sununu is preparing contingency plans as virus threatens state revenues.

Other Midwest legislatures are canceling sessions or weighing early spring breaks to slow the spread of COVID-19.

With a state budget deadline on the horizon, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo is requesting revised revenue estimates that factor in the economic realities of fast-spreading virus.