Hawaii State Government Budget

Every other year, the governor submits a two-year budget plan for the state. The Legislature then battles over more how much to spend to run the state. Here's how the process works and how the money gets spent.

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Hawaii Should Publish Government Legal Notices On the Internet Abercrombie's Bigger Budget Still Doable With Lowered Revenue Forecast Hawaii Gov. Proposes Bigger Budget For Next Year — With No Tax Hikes Still No Resolution on HGEA's Favored Nation Perk Hawaii Sees 'Optimistic Financial Picture' Ahead Hawaii Completes $1.3 Billion Bond Sale — Largest in State History Hawaii's Bond Proceeds to Fund More Capital Projects Hawaii State Salaries 2012: Highest Paid at University of Hawaii Hawaii Agreement With UPW Includes Furloughs Hawaii Completes 2010 Financials 16 Months Later At Least 3 Hawaii Lawmakers Give Back, Donate Pay Raises Hawaii State Salaries 2012: The Hawaii Legislature Civil Beat Shares Hawaii State Employee Salaries Higher Rental Car Fee Generates Extra $5 Million Ka-ching! Hawaii Got $20B From Feds Last Year Hawaii State Salaries 2012: Highest Paid Employees New Tax Laws Boost Hawaii Revenue Forecast to 14.5% Hawaii Spending Growing at Nearly Four Times National Average Schools Asked To Find $66M In Potential Cuts When Labor Contracts Expire, State Pay To Revert to Pre-Furlough Levels Hawaii Gov Reveals Plan for $50 Million in Cuts Hawaii Budget Chief: Tax Hikes Likely to Cover Cost of Retirees' Health Care Hawaii Public Employee Health Fund Audit M.I.A.? Restoring Furloughs To Cost State of Hawaii More Than $160 Million Auditor: Poor Management of Hawaii Public Housing Puts Federal Funds at Risk Abercrombie: Special Session Unlikely, Revenues Forecast Unchanged Analysis: Budgets Swell for All but Two Hawaii Depts. Hawaii to Spend $2.9B on Capital Projects, Stimulate Jobs Hawaii Loses Substitute Teacher Class Action Suit, Could Owe $70 Million Pay Raises for Hawaii Lawmakers Still on Table How Much Hawaii Legislature’s Tax Hikes Will Cost You Lawmakers Agree on Spending Plan, Still Need $500M in New Revenue Hawaii Legislature Stalemated Over Budget Lawmakers Come up With Bare-Bones Budget Hawaii to Drain Hurricane Fund to Cover Shortfall Hawaii Lawmakers Will Hammer Out State Budget Over Next Week HGEA Deal = Less Pay For Less Work GET Hike, Exemptions Would Raise Extra $1.3 Billion For Hawaii Hawaii Lowers Revenue Forecast to -1.6 Percent Hawaii's Budget Options: Raid Special Funds or Freeze Spending Hawaii Bucks National Trend: Tax Collections Up Hawaii's New Budget Deficit: $1.3 Billion Calvin Say Supporters Bring Home The Bacon Online Travel Companies Owe Hawaii $170 Million In Unpaid Taxes Council on Revenues: Rosy Growth Rate A Red Herring Senate Money Chairman: Hawaii House Budget 'No Longer Valid' Hawaii House Speaker Tired of 'Band-Aid Approach' to Fixing Deficit More Than Just a Paycheck: How Public Compensation Stacks Up in Hawaii The Paychecks of Hawaii Public Union Leaders Hawaii Lawmakers Expected to Raid Special Funds to Close Gap Bill Watch: Taxes and Fees at the Halfway Point Bad News: Hawaii's Budget Gap Nears $1 Billion Hawaii House Agrees On $10.9 Billion Budget Progress Report: Legislature Rejects Most Abercrombie Tax Increases Honolulu to State: There's No Rail Money for You Revised Pension Tax Would Affect Less Than 1 Percent of Taxpayers Let's Address Root Causes of Hawaii's Financial Woes Week 43: Beyond the Big Stories Hawaii Could Cut Public Workers' Bargaining Rights Budget 101 With Prof. Abercrombie Abercrombie Proposes Raising Spending On Operations, Construction Senate Slashes Gov's Plan to Tax Pensions A Surcharge on Safety: Racking Up Overtime While Taking Vacation Lawmakers Back Off Abercrombie's Call for Pension Reform Gov's 60-40 Healthcare Split Moves Forward Personal Insults Flung at Gov During Senate Hearing UH Could Be Hit Hard By Special Funds Repeal Abercrombie Running Low on Cash, Seeks Extra $1M Bill Watch: Taxes and Fees How Much Will Gov. Abercrombie's Proposed Tax Hikes Cost You? How to Create More Affordable Housing on a Tight Budget Abercrombie Wants to Double Vehicle Weight Tax Money Woes Not a Priority For Health Fund Trustees Abercrombie Plan Raises Taxes, Cuts Services Human Services Doesn't Know Where It'll Cut In Righting the Canoe, Who Gets Thrown Overboard? Hawaii's Clean Energy Future Pursuing Health Equity in Hawaii Taking Care of Our Elders Fragile Recovery Requires Proven Leadership Will Hawaii Learn the Great Recession? Pension, Health-Care Costs Contribute to State Budget Gap Senators Grill Public Safety Director on Excessive Overtime Use, Auditor's Report UH Seeks Extra $82M Over Next Two Years Kokubun Back in Senate, Pitching for Opposing Team Hawaii's Human Services Department Says It's Nearing 'Stimulus Cliff' Hawaii Tax Debate: Shaping Good Tax Policy Hawaii's 3 Growing Liabilities: Pensions, Health Care, Debt Hawaii Public Schools Ask for $1.8 billion, Plus $29 million 'Wish List' Hawaii Tax Debate: Don’t Increase the General Excise Tax Delaying Hawaii's Tax Refunds Seen as a One-Time Deal Stories From the Money Beat - 2010 Recycled Council on Revenues Projects $44M Revenue Boost This Year Abercrombie's New Day Runs into Budget Sinkhole Week 33: The Facts About Rail Costs and Extraordinary Overtime Abercrombie Inherits Pile of Lawsuits Government Waste Watch: State Paying Staff to Retype Every Food Stamp Application Hawaii's General Fund Down 6% So Far This Fiscal Year Lack of Hot Water For Public Housing Residents a Test for Abercrombie Transition Hawaii No Clear Winner in Money Race for OHA Trustees Lingle Administration Won't Release Emergency Funds Public Employee Salaries Are Public No Recovery for Hawaii Economy Anytime Soon Public Union to Seek Changes to Open Records Law Leader of Government Employees Union Responds to Salary Articles Can't Miss Comments, Sept. 4 — Change is Good Comments You Don't Want to Miss: Aug. 21 Week 16: All Is Quiet at Civil Beat — Not Hawaii's Highest Paid State Employees Hawaii's Lowest Paid State Workers How Everyone Knew My Salary State Violates Balanced-Budget Requirement The Waipahu Food Assistance Office Is Empty — and It's Not for Lack of Need, Nor Is It A Bad Thing More Families to Be Eligible for Food Assistance Coming Wednesday: Salaries of State Employees State Pays a Price for Faulty Economic Forecasts Hawaii House Members to Look Into Investments UPDATE: Top State Pension Administrators Sit Down with Civil Beat Government Official Spends 25 Minutes Talking About Why He Can't Talk UPDATE: Aiona Does The Right Thing UPDATE: Hot Off the Press: Official Report on State Revenues Projections The Ticker: Money Stories From Around The Web For Tuesday, June 1 UPDATE: Our Economy Is Up, Really? Another Look At Economic Projections Frozen Investments Could Have Helped Solve State Budget Crisis How The State Auditor Determined Frozen Investments Included General Funds UPDATE: State issued 3,500 tax refunds totaling about $21 million UH Professors Guaranteed Raises Despite Economy UPDATE: The Ticker: Today's Money Stories From Around the Web UPDATE: State Will Begin Issuing Delayed Tax Refunds State Banking on Economic Recovery To Pay Its Bills No Strings on Tourism Tax, A "Double-Edge Sword" For Counties If Hawaii Doesn't Pay Now, Will It Have To Pay More Later? UPDATE: Five Public Schools Going Solar UPDATE: Color By Numbers. Or Is It Numbers By Color? Nonprofits Can't Escape GET, Despite "Tax-Exempt" Status UPDATE: Tax-Exempt Bonds Help Private Schools Make Campus Improvements UPDATE: The House on the House Budget	FACT CHECK — Abercrombie: Hawaii Finances in the Black for First Time in 3 Years FACT CHECK — Gov Not Taxing Pensions of Retirees With $37,500 Income Abercrombie: Projection of Deficit Was 'Considerably Less' in October 2010 Abercrombie: "We Will Not Be Raising Any Taxes" Djou: Micronesians Consume 20 Percent of Social Service Resources Abercrombie: Intent of Rainy Day Fund to Stabilize State Welfare Programs	Asking For More By Limiting Deductions Undermining Economic Recovery Successes and Missteps of Government in Hawaii Discussion: Hawaii Public Employee Salaries Hawaii State Salaries 2012: Fewer Employees, Higher Costs Civil Beat To Publish 'Hawaii State Salaries 2012' Hawaii Finalizing $50M in 'Restructuring' Cuts Newsmaker: Watch the Interview With HGEA Executive Director Randy Perreira Newsmaker: Interview With Lt. Governor Brian Schatz Hawaii Retirement, Health Benefit Costs Down On Paper, Up in Reality What It Takes To Understand Hawaii's Education Budget Hawaii Tax Director Finds Unusual, Inconsistent Revenue Reports Inside Honolulu: April 26 Why Hawaii Needs A State Bank What Abercrombie Didn't Tell Us About HGEA Deal Hawaii Needs to Raise Revenues and Spend More Clawing for the Last Dime at the Hawaii Legislature Few Options As Hawaii's Budget Woes Intensify Bringing Home The Bacon — The Raw Numbers State Still Wants to Cap Counties' Share of TAT Hawaii's Per-Capita Spending Ranks in Top 5 Key Concepts To Consider Before Cutting Medicaid Abercrombie Fact Check Corrected, Grade Changed Hawaii Social Services Struggling Off The Beat: Abercrombie's Happy News Barrel Tax Stuck Until Gov's Budget Arrives Off The Beat: FBI And Sick Leave/Overtime Fraud Straight Talk From Hawaii Union Rep to His Members Bill Clinton Backs Hawaii Film Industry Tax Break Hawaii Ranks Near Top for Debt and Pension Liability Abercrombie Responds to Civil Beat Fact Check Hawaii Legislature Capitol Watch: Jan. 18 Civil Unions, Civil Rights Hawaii Tourists Filling Local Tills UPDATE: Full Health Benefits Restored for Micronesians Discussion: Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie Surprise! 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