The Comptroller's Office provides staff to the Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means Committees for assistance with fiscal and budget information. In addition to furnishing information, the staff produces three fiscal publications for distribution to legislators and their constituents and other government agencies.

Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means staff produce three fiscal publications annually for distribution to legislators, their constituents and governmental agencies.

• The Fact Book, first prepared in 1987, is a pocket-sized publication that is a compilation of budget information and facts about major departments of Tennessee state government. It also includes federal, state, and local budget information, graphs, revenue schedules, and various national and state data.

• Analysis of Expenditures and Positions and Selected Fiscal Data, an annual publication since 1981, presents comparisons of budgets and authorized positions by showing the amount and percentage of growth over a five-year period for each department of state government. In addition, the approximately 110-page publication presents fiscal data for various state programs for the same period.

• County-by-County Analysis consists of 95 sets of schedules (up to nine schedules for each county) that detail, by major programs, the estimated state dollars benefiting the residents of a county. County-by-County Analysis has been compiled each year since 1977.

Contact Information:

John Paysinger
Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means Committees
1st Floor Rachel Jackson Building
Nashville, TN 37243-0267
Phone 615-741-4805
Fax 615-253-0258