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Truth in Spending

Confront Contract Spending

Report Spending on Contracts

• States with a Contract Budget
  
• Rhode Island Government Oversight and Fiscal Accountability Review Act
  
• Colorado contracting records, with summaries by function and details by agency
  
• Hawaii sole-source contract awards and Health and Human Services Department contracts
  
• Louisiana report, with summary totals and details on the top 50 professional, personal, consulting and social services contracts
  
• Maryland contract documents
  
• Missouri searchable, browsable contract database
  
• Oregon contract information search tool (click "Browse")
  
• Texas contract report, with details by agency
  
• Washington State searchable, browsable contract database
  
• Wisconsin report on contract spending, with summaries by agency and function
  

Expose Wasteful Contracts

• New York contract audit
  
• Ohio contract report
  
• California Legislative Analyst's Office report on contracting out
  

Reform the Contracting Process

• California contracting law
  
• Maryland contracting law (Sec. 13-401 through 13-405)
  
• Massachusetts contracting law
  
• Montana contracting law review of privatized programs
  
• Washington State contracting law
  
• Connecticut 2005 contracting reform bill (vetoed)
  
• Florida 2005 contracting reform bill (vetoed)

• The Problem of Tax Expenditures

Produce a Tax Expenditure Report

• States with Tax Expenditure Reports
  

Repeal Outrageous Tax Expenditures

• Florida tax expenditures
  

Sunset and Review All Tax Expenditures

• Connecticut Business Tax Credit and Tax Policy Review Committee
  

• Florida FAIR Amendment
  
• Plan for Jobs Today and Jobs Tomorrow: Michigan's Fiscal Year 2006 Executive Budget (see page A-6)
  

• Good Jobs First comprehensive subsidy reform legislation
  

Disclose Subsidy Deals

• States with company-specific disclosure of subsidy deals
  
• Illnois' subsidy disclosure Website
  

Require Job Standards

• States that require job standards for at least one development subsidy (PDF page 9)

Impose Clawbacks

• States with 'clawback' penalties for non-compliance with subsidy job-creation commitments

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