Fiscal Analysis Department
373 State Office Building St. Paul,
MN 55155
Phone: (651) 296-7176 Fax: (651) 296-9709
Bill Marx, Chief Fiscal Analyst
There are several ways to get fiscal information for the State of Minnesota from this web
site:
Browse the House Fiscal Committee Structure, with links to
spreadsheets and other Department publications.
- Or pick from any of the following types of
documents below:
- Available
Session tracking sheets
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Available
Money Matters
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Available
Issue Briefs & Other Documents (Including Financing Education in
MN)
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Available
General Information
House rule 4.03 requires the House Committee on
Ways and Means to publish a summary of the estimated fiscal
effect on the general fund of each bill that has been referred to the Committee.
Have a specific question, or want to contact us?
Check the Fiscal
Analyst Staff Directory for a complete listing of our addresses and phone numbers. The
directory also indicates which budget areas each analyst is responsible for.
The Fiscal Analysis Department provides professional, non-partisan, and confidential services for all members
of the House of Representatives, as well as providing legislative support services to the House
finance and tax committees on fiscal issues. The Finance committee and its divisions, the
Taxes and Ways and Means Committees, are staffed by fiscal analysts who
provide assistance to the committees in making decision on state budgetary and fiscal legislation.
Department staff analyze spending requests, aid committees in developing and analyzing
budgetary options, draft legislation to implement legislative budget decisions, track legislative
decisions, and provide analysis for legislative oversight of enacted budgets. Fiscal analysts
respond to requests from individual members needing analyses or information on state budgetary
issues or government finances. The Fiscal Analysis Department researches, prepares and
distributes publications providing information on state budget issues and government finance.
The staff of the Fiscal Analysis Department currently consists of the chief fiscal analyst, who
staffs the Finance Committee, and Ways and Means Committee; and eleven fiscal analysts, nine assigned to House finance
divisions, and two assigned to the tax committee.
Currently available from this web site are two types of documents generated by the Fiscal
Analysis Department: spreadsheets noting appropriation amounts for current and past legislative
sessions in each subject area, and; Department publications
summarizing fiscal issues important to the House. These publications include Money
Matters, which offers in-depth analyses of various fiscal issues, and Issue
Briefs, which summarize current fiscal topics of interest to the Legislature.
The House of Representatives has a Finance Committee with 14 divisions which oversee agency budgets,
related program grants and formulas and capital projects. The Tax Committee is responsible for
state tax policy, and
the Ways and Means Committee oversees overall state fiscal policy and has the responsibility of
reviewing all committee actions related to fiscal matters. For an overview of the committees
individual fiscal staff are assigned to and a list of each committee's relevant publications,
please refer to the Fiscal Committee Structure page.
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