The House and Senate are set to enact a Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget, totaling $56.2 billion. The conference committee report was filed on July 30th, one month after the start of the new fiscal year. This year, separate tax bill negotiations, the new...

Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 is just over two weeks away and House and Senate budget negotiators are in the process of reconciling countless spending, policy, and technical differences between the two bills. This year, the always complex budget negotiation...

After four days of debate, the Senate finalized its $55.9 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget; adding $82.2 million in new spending and 34 outside policy sections. The Senate took action on 1,049 amendments through a combination of standalone...

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget process reached another milestone today with the release of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means (SWM) budget proposal. The $55.9 billion SWM spending plan differs from earlier proposals as it was not released in...

The House finalized its $54.9 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget this week after adding $129.7 million in spending over the course of three days of debate. The House took action on 1,566 amendments through a combination of 7 consolidated...

The next major step in the FY 2024 budget development process began today with the release of the House Committee on Ways and Mean’s (HWM) budget proposal. Coming just six weeks after Governor Healey filed her administration’s inaugural budget, the ...

In January, budget-writers upgraded the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 tax revenue benchmark by just over $150 million, from $39.618 billion to $39.768 billion. Tax collections for the month of March (announced on April 5th) are the first collections to be...

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget development process is well underway, but with about 4 months remaining in FY 2023 this brief takes a fresh look at the state’s current fiscal picture. Based on current spending and revenue collections to date, the...