States with spending online

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The movement pushing for state governments to post their spending online was given its first major victory when President George W. Bush signed the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 2590) into law in September 2006. Sponsored by Senators Tom Coburn and Barack Obama, this bipartisan legislation required that federal grant and contract funding data appear online in a searchable database.^[1] For the new administration, OMB Watch has produced suggestions to increase transparency and government openness. Read the report by clicking here. Prospects for transparency look hopeful, although President Obama may face challenges in promoting it.^[2]

[edit] States with Spending Online

Since S. 2590 passed, different states have begun to implement their own transparency sites to disclose information about state government spending. The states that do disclose their spending online vary in how much they disclose. Some sites are comprehensive, while others are limited in their disclosure. For example, as the table below makes evident, many states fail to publish records of public employee salaries; nevertheless, links to many states' employee salaries are available on this site. While the number of transparent states has been growing recently and each state's level of transparency differs, all of the following states currently provide some degree of online spending disclosure:

Criteria for evaluating spending databases

State Database	Searchability	Grants	Contracts	Line Item Expenditures	Dept/Agency Budgets	Public Employee Salary
Alabama: open.alabama.gov
Alaska: Checkbook Online
Arkansas: Office of Budget
California: Reporting transparency
California: EBudget
Colorado: TOP
Connecticut: ct.gov/governorrell
Delware: budget.delaware.gov
Florida: Florida's Checkbook
Georgia: Open Georgia
Hawaii: Hawaii.gov
Idaho: Idaho.gov
Illinois: Open Books
Illinois: Comptroller's Website
Indiana: Active Contracts
Indiana: www.in.gov
Kansas: KanView
Kentucky's Open Door
Kentucky: Check It Out Kentucky!
Kentucky: V.I.E.W.
LaTrac
Maryland: Funding Accountability and Transparency
Minnesota: TAP Minnesota
Mississippi: Management and Reporting System
Missouri: Missouri Accountability Portal
Nebraska: nebraskaspending.com
Nevada: Open Government
New York: Open Book New York
New York: Project Sunlight
North Carolina: Open Book
Oklahoma: Open Books
Rhode Island state budget
South Carolina: Spending Transparency
South Dakota: open.sd.gov
Tennessee: TN.gov
Texas: Where the Money Goes
Utah: Transparent Utah
West Virginia: State Agency Grants
Washington Fiscal Information

[edit] States lacking disclosure

Some states do not fully disclose their spending on their website. This includes Iowa. Iowa's spending, however, can be found at this link.

[edit] See also

• List of transparency websites
• Cost of state transparency websites

[edit] External links

• Bills would boost spending transparency, Stateline.org, March 6, 2009

[edit] References

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