Department

Legislative Branch

$452.6M
total checkbook spend · FY18–present
9Fiscal years
8Programs
15+Top vendors
-8% in FY25 vs FY24

Budget vs. actual

Appropriated budget (state budget dataset, converted from thousands) against actual checkbook payments. Differences reflect fund types, timing, and spending outside the checkbook — a lead, not a verdict.

Fiscal yearBudgetedCheckbook actualActual / budget
FY18 $16,250,300 $17,380,550 107%
FY19 $16,676,500 $17,241,602 103%
FY20 $17,134,400 $17,511,136 102%
FY21 $17,752,200 $18,145,920 102%
FY22 $18,201,300 $85,091,907 468%
FY23 $20,358,500 $114,964,073 565%
FY24 $21,730,100 $70,464,604 324%
FY25 $24,247,700 $64,767,209 267%
FY26 $25,810,400 $46,990,791 182%

Budget source: “Legislative” in the appropriated budgets dataset. Open source dataset ↗

Money anatomy

From 14,371,805 expenditure line items — how this department's spending breaks down by fund and account.

By fund

General Fund (General)
$382.2M
Capital Projects (Capital)
$55K
General Fund (Special)
$12K

Top spending accounts

Grants in Aid
$261.5M
Salaries/Wages-Employees
$55.8M
Pensions/Employer'S Share
$13.0M
Health Ins/Employers' Sh
$10.6M
Other Professional Service
$7.8M
IT Professional Services
$5.7M
Legal Services
$3.8M
Assoc Dues and Conf Fees
$3.3M
Casual & Seasonal Sals
$3.0M
Emplyr Sh/Social Security
$2.4M
Software Maintenance
$2.1M
Consultants
$1.9M

Source: checkbook expenditure details. Open source dataset ↗

Programs

ProgramTotalVendorsYears
Office of Controller General $297,163,536 493 FY18–FY26
General Assembly, House $74,506,309 195 FY18–FY26
General Assembly, Senate $48,304,262 152 FY18–FY26
Division of Research $15,235,074 90 FY18–FY24
Legislative Services $8,353,089 60 FY25–FY26
Commission On Interstate Coop $7,161,844 70 FY18–FY26
Code Revisors $1,402,856 5 FY18–FY26
Comm. On Uniform State Laws $430,822 10 FY18–FY26

Spending by fiscal year

Fiscal yearTotalPaymentsVendors
FY18 $17,380,550 3,625181
FY19 $17,241,602 3,716191
FY20 $17,511,136 3,451185
FY21 $18,145,920 2,919141
FY22 $85,091,907 3,455333
FY23 $114,964,073 3,784383
FY24 $70,464,604 4,143347
FY25 $64,767,209 4,106341
FY26 $46,990,791 4,408310