Proposed & Enacted Budgets

Overview

Over the course of the coming months, governors in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands will propose a new budget for fiscal 2026. Thirty-one states will approve a one-year budget for fiscal 2026, while 16 states will enact a two-year budget for fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2027. Kentucky, Virginia, and Wyoming previously enacted a biennial budget for both fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026, and may propose revisions to their current biennial budget. Forty-six states begin their fiscal year on July 1 (New York begins its fiscal year on April 1, Texas on September 1, and Alabama and Michigan on October 1). Puerto Rico begins its fiscal year on July 1, while the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands begin their fiscal year on October 1.

Budget Summaries & Links

Click on a state below to view fiscal 2026 budget summaries prepared by NASBO staff (once available), links to proposed/enacted budgets and more details about their budget processes (as reported in NASBO’s Budget Processes in the States). You may also view prior fiscal year summaries on proposed and enacted budgets.

Please note the fiscal 2026 budget summaries are only intended to detail the governor’s original budget proposal, and may not reflect subsequent revisions or amendments to those proposals. 

Recent Resources

FY25 Enacted Budget Summaries
Issue Brief 

States Finalize Fiscal 2025 Budgets
Budget Blog

FY25 Proposed Budget Summaries
Issue Brief  

*States marked with an asterisk enacted two-year budgets in 2024 covering FY 2025 and FY 2026. Some of these states may propose and enact supplemental budgets, and this page will be updated as those are released.

For states with an enacted budget, the date of enactment (date signed by the governor) is listed below. Where “Yes” is listed instead of a date, this indicates the state has an enacted budget, but the date of enactment is either unknown or the state’s budget is comprised of multiple bills enacted on multiple dates.