Minnesota Governor's Proposed Biennial Operating Budget
Compiled by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
The Minnesota state budget operates on a two-year cycle, or biennium, covering two fiscal years. The structure and mechanisms of budgeting for the State of Minnesota are found in Article XI of Minnesota's Constitution. Minnesota Statutes 16A.11 requires that the governor submit a proposed state operating budget, including a budget message, to the Minnesota Legislature in January or February of odd-numbered years.
Following the release of the governor's proposed budget, the process moves to the Legislature. Appropriation bills are introduced in the legislature and make their way through the legislative process. The appropriations bills that are approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor make up the state’s operating budget. The final operating budget does not appear in a single law but is made up of a number of separate appropriations laws. For more detailed information about Minnesota’s state budget, see the Legislative Library’s guide to the State Budget Process.
Below is a compilation of the proposed operating budget documents of Minnesota governors, beginning with the late 1990s. Included for each biennium are the original proposals for state agencies as well as updates and revisions to those proposals.
Proposed biennial budget presented by Governor to Legislature.
Publisher: Proposed biennial budget presented by Governor to Legislature.
2002/2003 - Economic Development
2002/2003 - Environment & Natural Resources
2002/2003 - Health & Human Services
2002/2003 - Health & Human Services Change Order #1
2002/2003 - Children, Families & Learning Change Order #1
2002/2003 - Change Order #1 (Agency Budget Revisions )
2002/2003 - Executive Budget Summary
2002/2003 - Children, Families & Learning
2002/2003 - Criminal Justice
2002/2003 - Transportation & Other Agencies
2002/2003 - State Government
2002/2003 - Information Technology Initiatives & Inventory Report
2002/2003 - Change Order #5 (Department of Agriculture and Board of Animal Health)
2002/2003 - Change Order #6 (State Operated Services, Departmental Earnings)
2002/2003 - State and Local Finance Reform (Revised)
2002/2003 - Change Order #2 (Supplemental Budget Items, Errata and Changes)
2002/2003 - Change Order #3 (Federal Funds)
2002/2003 - Change Order #4 (Military Affairs)
2002/2003 - Fund Statements
2002/2003 - State and Local Finance Reform: Taxes, Aids & Credits
2002/2003 - Preliminary Unallotment
2002/2003 - Unallotment
2002/2003 - Higher Education
2000/2001 - Higher Education
2000/2001 - Transportation & Other Agencies
2000/2001 - Criminal Justice
2000/2001 - Education, Children & Families
2000/2001 - Environment & Natural Resources
2000/2001 - Health & Human Services
2000/2001 - Change Order #1 (Other Agency Budget Revisions)
2000/2001 - Fund Statements
2000/2001 - Economic Development
2000/2001 - Excutive Budget Summary
2000/2001 - State and Local Finance Summary
2000/2001 - Change Order #1 (Federal Funds)
2000/2001 - Change Order #2 (Federal Funds)
2000/2001 - State Government
1998/1999 - Change Order #2
1998/1999 - State Government
1998/1999 - Transportation & Other Agencies
1998/1999 - Information Technology
1998/1999 - Environment and Natural Resources
1998/1999 - Health and Human Services
1998/1999 - Executive Budget Summary
1998/1999 - Fund Statements
1998/1999 - Economic Development
1998/1999 - Criminal Justice
1998/1999 - Children, Families and Learning
1998/1999 - Change Order #3
1998/1999 - Change Order #4
1998/1999 - Change Order #1
1998/1999 - State and Local Finance Summary
1998/1999 - Higher Education
1996/1997 - Higher Education
1996/1997 - Executive Budget Summary
1996/1997 - State & Local Finance Summary
1996/1997 - Change Order #1
1996/1997 - Change Order #2
1996/1997 - Change Order #3
1996/1997 - Change Order #4
1996/1997 - Change Order #5
1996/1997 - Fund Statements
1996/1997 - State Government
1996/1997 - Environment & Natural Resources
1996/1997 - Criminal Justice
1996/1997 - Health & Human Services
1996/1997 - Transportation & Other Agencies
1996/1997 - Education & Education Aids
1996/1997 - Children & Family Services
1994/1995 - Overheads
1994/1995 - Major Revenues, Local Government Aids and Property Tax Relief
1994/1995 - Fund Statements
1994/1995 - State Government
1994/1995 - Jobs and Commerce
1994/1995 - Education and Children
1994/1995 - Executive Budget Summary
1994/1995 - Education and Children Supplement
1994/1995 - Environment and Natural Resources
1994/1995 - Human Development
1994/1995 - Suppl. Fed. Funds - Change Order #8
1992/1993 - State Government Affairs
1992/1993 - Human Development
1992/1993 - Environment & Natural Resources
1992/1993 - Education Finance
1992/1993 - Executive Budget Summary
1992/1993 - Change Order #1
1992/1993 - Post-Secondary Education
1992/1993 - Infrastructure & Regulation
1992/1993 - Fund Statements
1990/1991 - State Departments Volume 1
1990/1991 - Post-Secondary Education
1990/1991 - Forecast and Baseline Estimates
1990/1991 - Education Aids and the Department of Education
1990/1991 - Human Resources
1990/1991 - Transportation and Semi- State Departments Errors Omissions Summary
1990/1991 - Fund Statements
1990/1991 - Transportation and Other Agencies
1990/1991 - State Departments Volume 2
1987/1989 - Transportation and Other Agencies
1987/1989 - State Departments Volume 1
1987/1989 - Post-secondary Education
1987/1989 - Education Aids and the Department of Education
1987/1989 - Human Resources
1987/1989 - Fund Statements
1985/1987 - Transportation and Other Agencies
1983/1985 - Health, Welfare, Corrections
1983/1985 - Fund Statements
1981/1983 - Revisions