Articles tagged as: state budget
June 10, 2025
Indiana agencies, higher education likely face further budget cuts due to spending hold back orders
State agencies are likely to face more cuts in the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1 because of spending requirements from the legislature included in the new budget.
Read MoreMay 5, 2025
Local NPR and PBS stations reel as Indiana funding to end, federal aid targeted
Nearly $13 million in total state and federal public funding accounts for about 30% of the combined budgets of Indiana’s public media stations, according to a WFYI analysis of budget and funding data.
Read MoreApril 11, 2025
Weekly Statehouse Update: Senate GOP budget, House property tax overhaul, scaled-back DEI bill
Senate Republicans unveil their version of Indiana's next two-year budget. House Republicans push through their property tax overhaul. And a committee scales back an anti-DEI measure.
Read MoreApril 10, 2025
Senate budget plan sets aside billions, rejects House spending increases
The Senate Republican budget proposal, unveiled Thursday, differs from its House counterpart in three key ways.
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2025
Weekly Statehouse update: House GOP budget, immigration enforcement, collegiate trans sports ban
House Republicans advance their budget proposal. A controversial immigration bill quickly clears the House chamber. And a ban on transgender women competing in college sports heads to the Senate.
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2025
House Democrats' budget priorities focused on boosts to public education, health care funding
Indiana House Democrats say the state budget should prioritize public education, health care funding, and relief for working-class Hoosiers.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2025
House GOP budget: 2% K-12 increases, agency spending reductions — but no new tax cuts
The House Republicans’ state budget proposal includes 2% per year increases in K-12 education funding; hundreds of millions of new dollars for the Department of Child Services and Department of Correction; and no new tax cuts.
Read MoreOctober 8, 2024
School funding must be priority in next Indiana budget, says Democratic lawmaker
The combined state funds for traditional public, charter and private school vouchers as a percentage of the state’s general fund has shrunk in the past 14 years.
Read MoreMay 24, 2024
Indiana officials say timing issues explain big miss in April's state revenue target
Indiana missed its state budget revenue target by more than $200 million in April. But state officials explain away the miss as a timing issue that shouldn't affect the overall state revenue picture.
Read MoreApril 17, 2024
Indiana tax collections still ahead this fiscal year despite missing the mark in March
Indiana tax revenues are ahead of where the state budget needs them to be heading into the final three months of the budget cycle despite collections in March that failed to meet expectations.
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